A panoramic view is one of the selling points at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
Sir Martin Rees, seen here in Toronto in 2019, is Britain's Astronomer Royal and a vocal advocate for the use of science to address global issues that threaten humanity's long-term survival in the cosmos.That is the thinking behind the School of Cosmic Future, an idea jointly championed by Dr. Kollmeier and long-time institute member Peter Martin.
“Really there’s nothing guaranteed in the cosmos about our future,” Dr. Martin said. “It could all stop and the universe wouldn’t care.” Dr. Kollmeier, who specializes in the large scale structure of the universe, traded a position at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif., two years ago to run one of Canada’s premier theoretical institutes.
Other efforts include the Future of Life Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where scientists last month issued an open letter recommending a six-month pause on the training of artificially intelligent systems more powerful than OpenAI’s chat bot GPT-4. Historically, the link between exploring the universe and concern for the planet traces back more than half a century to the first view of the whole Earth from space as witnessed by astronauts journeying to the moon in the late 1960s.
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