Up-Date on The Millennium Project june 29-2020

1. Agenda Mini MPPC meeting June 29, 2020
• Overview, Recent Accomplishments
and update on The Millennium Project
• State of the Pandemic Index
• Node reports: 2-minute reports live,
video, or pptx
• Open discussion

2. COVID Scenarios, Index, and Actions
Post-First Wave
Detailed Covid Alternative
Scenarios
7 Real-Time Delphi
Studies
http://www.millennium-
project.org/covid-19/
You can patriciate

3. 2 International RTDelphi Studies Now
COFID-19 International Medical/Health RTDelphi
• https://themp.org/rtd/covid_19_international_medicalheath/
• Deadline July 15th
COFID International Socio-Economic Impacts RTDelphi
• https://themp.org/rtd/covid_19_international_socio_economic_impacts/
• Deadline July 22nd

4. 7 RTDelphi input to Covid Scenarios
Seven Real-Time Delphi Studies Panels
1. US medical/health factors US medical and health professionals, plus others studying
the pandemic and the steering committee
recommendations
2. US socio-economic factors US social-economic professionals selected from research
reports, and the steering committee recommendations
3. International Medical/Health Impacts Nodes select medical and health professions, plus others
studying the pandemic; e.g., journalists
4. International Socio-Economic Impacts Nodes select socio-economic futurist professions, plus
others studying the pandemic; e.g., journalists
5. State of the Pandemic Index Variables Node select, plus participants in the first four RTDs
6. Draft Scenarios Assessment Node select, plus participants in the first five RTDs
7. Implications of the re-drafted scenarios
for Actions and readiness
US Pandemic officials

5. Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions
 Publication in English: Pakistan (hardback) US (paperback)
 Also in Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and coming in Italian,
Persian, and Arabic.
 Abbreviated version published in Germany by Bertelsmann.
 Finland Embassy in Washington, DC launch
 Articles on it by Hector in Spanish, and Nadezhda in Russian.
 W/T workshops and talks around the world that have opened the
conversation beyond just STEM to address AI.
 Overviews of Work/Tech scenarios published by VDI
Technologiezentrum GmbH
 http://www.kooperation-
international.de/fileadmin/public/downloads/itb/info_18_12_20_SAG.pdf

6. Communications
Videos
 15 separate videos on the Global Challenges (Chinese,
English, and Spanish)
 GFIS: Introduction demo
 GFIS: “How to” on 15 Global Challenges menu
 MP YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_VYU-OmDxOzlYJRUAJBVQg
Millennium Project Newsletter
Social Media: MP Facebook and LinkedIn

7. Other Recent Accomplishments
• World Future Day 24-hour Round-the-World Conversion on the Future -- the 6th
year in cooperation with APF, WFSF, and World Academy of Art and Science
• New Millennium Project Nodes: Costa Rica and Iceland
• UPenn Go to Think tank of 6,000+ think tanks: 24th New Idea or Paradigm and 49th
Best Quality Assurance and Integrity Policies and Procedures
• Futures Research Methodology 3.0 (1,300+ pages) translated into Persian/Farsi
and Spanish
• Partnership with the World Academy of Art and Science (UN/World Bank) 21st
Century Leadership
• State of the Future 19.1: 2018 Most Significant Futures Research award by the
Association of Professional Futurists, and translated into Italian, Greek, Spanish,
Partly Korean plus Youngsook’s additions, and Arabic coming?

8. A Framework for Understanding Global Change
Short Overviews of each
of the 15 Global Challenges
are freely available in the
Global Futures Intelligence
System at: www.themp.org

9. International Governance System for
Artificial General Intelligence
1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence
2. Artificial General Intelligence
3. Artificial Super Intelligence
Earliest AGI
Forecast for
10-15 years.
It might take
10 years to
negotiate a
treaty and
establish a
IAEA-like
institution