I recently gave a talk at the IARU Summer School on the Ethics of Technology.

In it, I touched on many of the research themes of the FHI: the accuracy of predictions, the limitations and biases of predictors, the huge risks that humanity may face, the huge benefits that we may gain, and the various ethical challenges that we'll face in the future.

Nothing really new for anyone who's familiar with our work, but some may enjoy perusing it.

I'll be speaking in Stanford this weekend, at the Advancing Humanity Symposium, looking into space exploration and colonisation - how easy it is to cross the voids between the stars and the galaxies and expand across the whole reachable universe.

https://www.facebook.com/events/338219042964586/?fref=ts

The talk will cover research described in “Eternity in six hours: intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox", with Dr. Anders Sandberg, forthcoming in the journal Acta Astronautica. For an earlier exploration of related ideas, see this popular talk from last year on the Dyson spheres, von Neumann probes and the Fermi paradox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTfuI-9jIo