G20 Discussion on Modern Day Technology
G20 Discussion on Modern Day Technology
The panels mandate will be to assess where we are and where we are headed in the future when it comes to post-human technology. Unlike IPCC, which deals with much longer time scales, IPTC will need to work much faster and nimbly.
It seems to us that the G20 is the right-sized organisation for chartering such a panel and enabling its functioning.
Discussion on Technology
- The release of ChatGPT has brought many people face-to-face with dramatic developments in technology, specifically Artificial Intelligence AI, which has been worrying experts for almost a decade. However, a smaller number of people understand that developments in biology, although far slower moving, can also hugely disrupt the social order.
- These technologies include embryo selection and various degrees of germ-line editing made possible by Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats CRISPR and related technologies.
- A high-level view of these developments is that human equilibrium wherein cultural evolution was the dominant driver of change is coming to an end and that hardware evolution, either outside us or inside us, will now be a significant force in human affairs.
To this end, we would like to propose a first step towards solving the underlying coordination problem.
- Along the lines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, which was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on the climate crisis, its implications and potential future risks, we propose to create an International Panel on Technological Change IPTC.
- We suggest that this be done quickly so that the first fruits of such a process can become available within a year from the hands of a relatively small high-level group that can tap the best minds worldwide on the most urgent technological issues.
- Thereafter, the process should proceed with continuous updating and a wider focus providing a basis for potential international agreements to head off dangerous security competitions, social and economic disruption and, certainly, a rapid and uncontrolled transition beyond the power of humanity to shape to its benefit.
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