The Swiss giant SGS SA, the German TÜV and 45 other environmental auditing firms haveat times also ignored or simply missed glaring environmental damage caused by their clients — who go on to contribute to the leveling of wide swaths of forest and to exacerbate global warming
The auditing firms have defended their work and saidthey carry out their services in compliance with the “highest standards
” Deforestation and other forms of forest degradation are important contributors to climate change
An ICIJ review of audit reports, violation records and court filings on companies operating in at least 50 countries found thelapses of the environmental auditing industry extend far beyond KPMG
Future of Life Institute's 2023 letter calling for a pause on AI models more powerful than GPT-4
Pause Giant AI Experiments:
An Open Letter is the title of a letter published by the Future of Life Institute in March 2023.The letter calls all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4
Extreme automation of jobs
Human obsolescenceAnd a society-wide loss of control.It received more than 20
Academic AI researchers and industry CEOs such as :
Steve Wozniak and Yuval Noah Harari.
Amusement ride at Dreamworld Australia
The Giant Drop is a drop tower ride located at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast
Australia.Manufactured by Intamin
The ride was added in December 1998 to the existing Dreamworld Tower which housed the Tower of Terror.For fourteen years
The Giant Drop held the record for the tallest drop tower in the world.
