Podcast appearances and mentions of Jerome C Glenn

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   At the end of February there was a landmark conference in Panama City and online, the Beneficial AGI Summit. AGI of course standing for Artificial General Intelligence, the Holy Grail of AI. My guest is Jerome C. Glenn, one of the organizers and sponsors, and who has a long and storied history of pivotal leadership and contributions to addressing existential issues. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project on global futures research, was contracted by the European Commission to write the AGI paper for their Horizon 2025-2027 program, was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations University as executive director of their American Council, and was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise, banning the first space weapon (the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) in SALT II, and shared the 2022 Lifeboat Guardian Award with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has over 50 years of futures research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Environmental Security, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, and much more.  In this second half we talk about approaches for actually controlling the development of AGI that were developed at the conference, the AI arms race, and… why Jerome doesn't like the term futurism.  All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.          

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   At the end of February there was a landmark conference in Panama City and online, the Beneficial AGI Summit. AGI of course standing for Artificial General Intelligence, the Holy Grail of AI. My guest is Jerome C. Glenn, one of the organizers and sponsors, and who has a long and storied history of pivotal leadership and contributions to addressing existential issues. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Millennium Project on global futures research, was contracted by the European Commission to write the AGI paper for their Horizon 2025-2027 program, was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations University as executive director of their American Council, and was instrumental in naming the first Space Shuttle the Enterprise, banning the first space weapon (the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) in SALT II, and shared the 2022 Lifeboat Guardian Award with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has over 50 years of futures research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Environmental Security, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, and much more.  In this first half we talk about his recent work with groups of the United Nations General Assembly, and his decentralized approach to grassroots empowerment in both implementing AGI and working together to regulate it. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.          

Jerome C. Glenn is the CEO of The Millennium Project, a global participatory think tank with 68 Nodes around the world, which for the last 25 years has produced the annual report, The State of the Future. The State of the Future is a comprehensive overview of the present situation and prospects for humanity, integrating forecasts, trends, and judgments of thought leaders and scholars from around the world sharing important future possibilities to improve strategies today. He invented the Futures Wheel and concepts such as conscious-technology, transInstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, self-actualization economy, feminine brain drain, and definitions of environmental security, collective Intelligence, and scenarios. He wrote about information warfare in the late 1980s in his book Future Mind, sent his first email in 1973, and in the mid-1980s he was instrumental in getting x.25 packet switching in 29 developing countries which was key to low-cost access to the Internet. More recently he wrote Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions, and lead the American Red Cross Covid-19 Scenarios.Learn more about Jerome's work at the Millennium Projecthttps://www.millennium-project.org/Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence: The Merging of the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (1989)Follow Jerome and his work at the Millennium Project on Facebook @Millennium.ProjectTwitter @JeromeCGlennYouTubeLinkedIn***Related links to this episode's contentUnited Nation's Secretary General's Report "Our Common Agenda"https://www.un.org/en/content/common-agenda-report/Putin's Palace documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0***Consider making a donation to help the children affected by the crisis in Ukrainehttps://www.unicef.org/You Are Here: A Self-Care Retreat for MomsA nourishing, restorative retreat designed to give moms a day of rest, reconnection with self, and revitalizing self-care.--Listeners of The Robin Smith Show can now join our Kiva Lending Team and help us in our effort to bring more good into being.Join Team Robley on Kiva!

Jerome C. Glenn is the co-founder in 1996 and CEO of The Millennium Project. He has over 40 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry. Jerome invented the “Futures Wheel” and he has published over 100 future-oriented articles in various publications including Foresight, Futures, Technological Forecasting, Futures Research Quarterly, and The Futurist.Jerome has a BA in philosophy from American University, an MA in Teaching Social Science – Futuristics from Antioch Graduate School of Education. He has an honorary professorship and doctor’s degrees from two universities in South America and is a leading boomerang stunt man.

Jerome C. Glenn is a futurist who serves as the Executive Director of the Millennium Project. He has been the Executive Director of the American Council for the United Nations University and the Deputy Director of Partnership for Productivity International.

I ramble about yardwork and presidential mute buttons.Jerome Glenn and his team at the Millennium Project, a global futures think tank in Washington D.C. were asked by the American Red Cross to create COVID-19 Scenarios. The three richly detailed Covid Scenarios of the United States to January 2022 are:Scenario 1: America Endures (baseline, mix of good and bad developments)Scenario 2: Depression, Hubris, and Discord​ (plausible worse case)​Scenario 3: Things go Right! (plausible best case)Listen as my father-in-law schools me on how the U.S. could look two years from now. These scenarios factor in U.S. health/medical variables, U.S. socio-economic variables, global socio-economic variables, global health/medical variables, and the State of the Pandemic Index - an assessment of variables that indicate the course of the pandemic for an integrated index. We also take a detour down an Artificial Intelligence rabbit hole.For the real nerds:Free access to the full report - http://www.millennium-project.org/covid-19/

Jerome C. Glenn is co-founder and Director of The Millennium Project and I had great fun talking to him during our first interview. But it has been over two years since our previous conversation and so, when Jason Ganz reminded me that the latest State of the Future report has been out for several months now, […]

Jerome C. Glenn is co-founder and Director of The Millennium Project. He is well known for inventing the Futures Wheel technique and, among many other things, is also the primary author on their annual state of the future report and editor of futures research methodology. Thus, when Jason Ganz suggested that I invite Jerome on Singularity 1 […]