Yesterday, the EU Commission officially endorsed pursuing a CERN for AI.

Today, CFG publishes our blueprint for how it should be structured, diving deep into research, governance and legal structure, focus areas and more.

Interesting workshop on solar radiation modification by my climate colleagues.

Nice parallels to AI policy, with the most important action being *lowering uncertainty*, eg:

-studying risks/effectiveness
-monitoring deployment
-foresight and crisis planning
#cfgFlagship

ICFG is rebranding! We are now CFG! I think our new brand & website is pretty swish, feedback welcome :D Also... we finally have a twitter! Give it a follow!

I got my Belgian Residence ID and official work Business card 😎

But the circle of life means making room for newcomers, so I finally have to depart with my beloved tesco club card (et al), you served me well, child 🫡.

The ICFG slack is lacking in custom emotes/reacts, and I've made it my mission to solve this critical problem. I am seeking input on what people's favourite reacts and emojis are.

me when someone asks if I've considered balancing the risks and opportunities of AI

guy who's researches bureaucracy but still doesn't know how to spell bureaucracy

VerticalPilled and googleDocMaxing.

I love that Claude can turn event emails into icals that I can actually use and put in my calendar, but it's frustrating that a) event organisers aren't sending icals to begin with b) this doesn't automatically happen with gemini.