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Futurist, Humanist and Public Thinker, Advocate for #thegoodfuture, Keynote Speaker: http://Gerdtube.com New film: http://LookupNow.tv Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3zdgkaQ My Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/28rXSKt

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Why do Americans hate each other while Canadians love each other? Could it have something to do with our politics? With the sociopath in the Oval?

Why do Americans hate each other while Canadians love each other?

10.03.2026 19:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Death Commodity: War Capitalism in the Age of AI 19 years ago, author and activist Naomi Klein turned the mirror on the ugly, sadistic face of our worldโ€™s economic system by coining the brilliant term Disaster Capitalism: what happens whenโ€ฆ

The Death Commodity: War Capitalism in the Age of AI georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/the-death-...

09.03.2026 17:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

The Pro-Human AI Declaration

09.03.2026 16:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weโ€™ll always have Dubai Why the newly endangered city will endure

โ€œIn the end, a world of dispersed wealth and power โ€” a โ€œmulti-polarโ€ world โ€” needs a convening point. It needs a node. Dubai is the likeliest candidateโ€

Weโ€™ll always have Dubai
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08.03.2026 05:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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US draws up strict new AI guidelines amid Anthropic clash Draft rules mandate civilian government contracts make models available for โ€˜any lawfulโ€™ use

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... www.ft.com/content/d8c2... More autocracy is coming. A clear trend across the board #thebadfuture www.thebadfuture.com US draws up strict new AI guidelines amid Anthropic clash.. rules mandate civilian government contracts make models available for โ€˜any lawfulโ€™ use

07.03.2026 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thoughts on Humanoid Robots, and Elon Musk's hyperbolic announcements youtube.com/shorts/xR5wS... #thegoodfuture #techvshuman #futuristgerd

07.03.2026 02:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Future of Futurists: Most of prediction work becomes automated; great narratives become essential but also increasingly politicized โ€“ Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker

The Future of Futurists: Most of prediction work becomes automated; great narratives become essential but also increasingly politicized โ€“ Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker futuristgerd.com/2026/02/the-...

06.03.2026 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Protect Whatโ€™s Human. AI designed to replace people threatens our jobs, our families, and our way of life.

Protect Whatโ€™s Human. protectwhatshuman.org

05.03.2026 20:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Saudi Arabiaโ€™s Ordeal Between the Sandworm and the Quicksand

wow... great charts here: Saudi Arabiaโ€™s Ordeal unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/saudi-arab...

05.03.2026 19:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How will OpenAI compete? โ€” Benedict Evans OpenAI has some big questions. It doesnโ€™t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and areโ€ฆ

How will OpenAI compete? โ€” Benedict Evans www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

04.03.2026 21:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Why the next 5 years will break or remake humanity (Futurist Gerd Leonhard)
Why the next 5 years will break or remake humanity (Futurist Gerd Leonhard) What if our obsession with profit is sabotaging our very survival? In this no-holds-barred video culled from a June 2025 interview in AbuDhabi, I explain why we need to shift from the outdatedโ€ฆ

that was 7 months ago, and it REALLY applies now: Why the next 5 years will break or remake humanity (Futurist Gerd Leonhard) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyQ...

04.03.2026 20:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NOVA Day 2026 | Data fรธrst, alltid | Hotel Bristol 18. mars Oppdag hvorfor data er nรธkkelen til AI-suksess. Delta pรฅ NOVA Day for strategisk innsikt om agent-รธkonomi, B2A og fremtidens teknologi. Gratis pรฅmelding!

Meet me in Oslo::: NOVA Day 2026 | Data fรธrst, alltid | Hotel Bristol 18. mars www.novaconsultinggroup.com/nova-day-2026

04.03.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yankee Go Home American power rested on culture. No longer.

Yankee Go Home. American power rested on culture. No longer. www.persuasion.community/p/the-slow-d... Good read. #USofE

03.03.2026 20:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropicโ€™s โ€˜Claude Constitutionโ€™ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

โ€œThe danger, as religious scholar Isaac May has pointed out, is that โ€˜having any community with such authority over the future of technology is perilousโ€

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots
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03.03.2026 19:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropicโ€™s โ€˜Claude Constitutionโ€™ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

โ€œThe latest iteration of the constitution asks that we respect chatbots as a new form of life. It even insists the law must be amended to take account of this new developmentโ€

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots
www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...
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03.03.2026 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beyond Knowledge and Global Consciousness? Here are the videos from Gerdtalks #11 โ€“ Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker

Work is moving beyond Knowledge and towards "Global Consciousness" futuristgerd.com/2022/06/glob...

02.03.2026 17:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How does Futurist Gerd Leonhard compare to Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis? โ€“ Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker

Here is an interesting query I generated with Claude, ChatGPT and NotebookLM: How does #Futurist Gerd Leonhard compare to Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis? โ€“ futuristgerd.com/2026/03/how-... video: futuristgerd.com/aqg0

02.03.2026 04:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Protopia: Building The Good Future: Yes we can! Futurist Gerd Leonhard's powerful online keynote
Protopia: Building The Good Future: Yes we can! Futurist Gerd Leonhard's powerful online keynote The future is not writtenโ€”itโ€™s a choice. In this talk, I explore why #thegoodfuture is entirely possible and how we can build itโ€”step by step, painfully, but surely. #protopia not dystopiaโ€ฆ

Protopia: Building The Good Future: Yes we can! Futurist Gerd Leonhard's powerful online keynote www.youtube.com/watch?v=tALU...

01.03.2026 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The threat to work and jobs is not just AI taking over the routine tasks (in pretty much any collar job) - the real threat is structural irrelevance of human labour.

01.03.2026 08:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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World Futures Day 2026: On March 1st, Join the Global Conversation on Humanity's Potential Futures - The Millennium Project March 1st, The Millennium Project and five other international foresight organizations will host the 13th annual World Futures Day โ€” a unique 24-hour online conversation around-the-world exploringโ€ฆ

World Futures Day 2026: On March 1st, Join the Global Conversation on Humanity's Potential Futures - The Millennium Project www.millennium-project.org/world-future...

28.02.2026 23:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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European alternatives to US tech | Proton | Proton Take back control of your digital life with privacy-focused European alternatives to US Big Tech apps and services.

European alternatives to US tech | Proton | Proton proton.me/blog/europea...

28.02.2026 17:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

We Will Not Be Divided notdivided.org wow. We are the employees of Google and OpenAI, two of the top AI companies in the world. We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models ...

28.02.2026 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropicโ€™s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropicโ€™s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

27.02.2026 23:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2588 ๐Ÿ” 865 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79 ๐Ÿ“Œ 52
Anthropic rejects Pentagonโ€™s AI demands โ€œ[T]hese threats do not change our position,โ€ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post.

Anthropic rejects Pentagonโ€™s AI demands

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Happy Friday from Project Liberty! This weekโ€™s newsletter tackles a new study by The Collective Intelligence Project outlining 5 โ€œparadoxesโ€ around how people are using AI โ€“ and how theyโ€™re trusting it.

And hereโ€™s Issue 36 of our Week in Review series. Letโ€™s dive in ๐Ÿ‘‡

27.02.2026 22:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

be sure to read #anthropic statement www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... and www.axios.com/2026/02/28/a...

28.02.2026 03:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Anthropic to sue Trump administration after AI lab is labelled security risk Pentagon has banned the start-up from government contracts in feud over military use of its technology

This is a landmark case that will likely go all the way to the Supreme Court, and very quickly so. "Trump to cut Anthropic from government contracts in six months" Everything about AI is POLITICS now and @DarioAmodei is right to make it a big deal! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... (gift link)

28.02.2026 03:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Unlock AI's potential at NOVA Day 2026: Data first! Join us March 18 in Oslo for insights on AI, data, and the future of business.

Meet me in Oslo March 18 for my keynote at : NOVA Day 2026: Data first! www.novaconsultinggroup.com/artificial-i...

27.02.2026 22:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump to cut Anthropic from government contracts in six months US president delays move against leading AI start-up in feud over military use of the technology

Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... www.ft.com/content/1aef... "Trump to cut Anthropic from government contracts in six months. US president delays move against leading AI start-up in feud over military use of the technology" This will be a BLESSING for Anthropic no doubt! #thegoodfuture

27.02.2026 21:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anthropic rejects Pentagon terms for lethal use of its chatbot Claude www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... FINALLY someone finds some _lls Congrats Dario Amodei et al. #anthropic

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