Is There an Increase in Catastrophic Risks?

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I think a lot of people have the general sense that there is an increasing number of possibly catastrophic issues, ah. As new categories of te te that allows major siber attacks on impo structure, tech that allows weaponized drone attacks on impho structure,. bio technologies, artificial intelligence are creating larger jumps in power faster than any other types of tech. We haven't been able to prevent any of those. And if we look at kind of the a corps initial mandate of the united tions, and terms of thinking about how to recognizing after world war too, that nations take government alone wouldn't prevent world war.

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.