📺 📻 New on the FLI Podcast: Astera Institute artificial general intelligence (AGI) safety researcher Steven Byrnes joins for a discussion diving into the hot topic of AGI, including different paths to it - and why brain-like AGI would be dangerous. 🔗 Listen to the episode now on your favourite podcast player, or at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0Koc9jv1w ➕ Be sure to check out the Astera Institute's Residency program, which is now accepting applications for their October 2025 cohort! The program supports "creative, high-agency scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs" in future-focused, high-impact, open-first innovation. Learn more here: https://astera.org/residency/ (fb)

A majority of United Nations states support a legally binding treaty on autonomous weapons to prohibit the most unpredictable and dangerous, and regulate those that can be used with meaningful human control. After more than a decade of diplomatic dialogue at the UN in New York and Geneva, states will meet in New York this May to advance critical efforts toward a legally binding instrument. Will your country support legally binding rules on autonomous weapons systems? (fb)