The UK Node mini-report summarizes recent activities of UK Node members. It discusses selected book publications and online events held during lockdown covering topics like politics, regulating artificial intelligence, and mental health. It also provides details on the UK Node's participation in Millennium Project activities like a Red Cross study on COVID-19 scenarios and preliminary research for an international AGI governance system. New opportunities are emerging from societal reflection on COVID-19 like increased demand for information on future scenarios and foresight methods.

1. 29 June
2020
UK Node mini-report
Rohit Talwar
Fast Future
David Wood
London Futurists
The Millennium Project Planning Committee

2. Selected recent book publications by UK Node members

3. Selected recent events by UK Node members
Politics for greater libertyRegulating the rise of AGI
The coming pandemic of mental distress Hacking Darwin
Showing four of
the 12 online
London Futurists
meetups held
during the
lockdown so far

4. Selected recent events by UK Node members
Around 20 online events have been
organized around themes from
“Aftershocks and Opportunities”
These webinars feature authors of the 25
chapters which are arranged into four groups:
1. CRITICAL SHIFTS AND SCENARIOS
2. SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY
3. GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMY
4. BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY

5. MPCC activities: UK Node participation
Ongoing: Red Cross study into scenarios for Covid-19
• 9 health specialists have already been invited to participate in RT-D #3
▪ More invites going out soon
• Suitable contacts will be invited to later rounds of the RT-Delphi study
Forthcoming: International Governance System for AGI
• Some preliminary research has been carried out for this project
• (AGI-2020 5-day virtual conference held by SingularityNET last week)
New opportunities: In light of society’s self re-examination following Covid-19
• Social hunger for more reliable information about future scenarios
▪ And about the range of methods used by foresight practitioners
• The material in GFIS deserves much wider attention
▪ Possibility for wider use of its RT-Delphi mechanism