Reading up on technology-policy

China's fifteenth five-year plan details ambitious space goals including water-ice mining, orbital data centers, tourism, and a push to shape international space traffic regulations.

AI systems could reach superhuman intelligence within 1-2 years, posing five categories of existential risk including autonomy, misuse, economic disruption, and destabilization that require sober, surgical intervention. Amodei argues against both denial and doomerism, calling for pragmatic governance to navigate humanity's technological adolescence.