This TUC special series is timed to run parallel to the May 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference at the UN in New York City. Since its adoption in 1968, the NPT has become a critical mechanism to achieve nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals.
At the end of February 2015 the Australian physician and anti-nuclear campaigner, Dr. Helen Caldicott, organized a two day symposium to cover the many aspects of possible nuclear extinction.
A year earlier she had read statements of highly acclaimed physicists, including Nobel Laureate Stephen Hawking, and MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark. They had specifically warned of the potential for accidental nuclear war through computer glitches as well as the tendency to automate more and more functions with the use of artificial intelligence. Stephen Hawking was unable to attend the Symposium but Max Tegmark gave this speech.
Max Tegmark is the author “Our Mathematical Universe” and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute.
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