After discovering regenerative agriculture’s environmental appeal was not enough to persuade consumers to buy its products, natural and organic meat company Applegate Farms is looking for another way to connect the farming practice to what many shoppers value more directly: their own health. The company recently joined a broad but disparate effort by numerous scientists, academic institutes and organizations to uncover whether regenerative farming not only enhances the health of the planet, but also positively impacts the nutritional composition of the food produced on land where the practices are implemented. And, by extension, the company wants to know whether evidence of a nutritional benefit could make shoppers more willing to support brands and farmers that use regenerative agricultural practices. Research supported by Applegate is the latest turn in a multi-year regenerative agriculture pilot that the company began with the development and launch in 2021 of its “Do Good Dog.” Described by the company as a “humble” hot dog made with beef from verified regenerative US grasslands, the launch had a lofty goal of democratizing a farming system considered in line with nature, but which is difficult for consumers unfamiliar with agriculture to understand. The hot dog featured packaging claims that...

And on Tuesday, British lawmaker Alex Sobel stood up in the House of Commons and introduced what he said was the first bill seeking to ban superintelligence in any G7 parliament. The bill defines superintelligent AI as a system that could disempower state authorities, and seeks to give the state new powers to monitor and restrict systems that may be “precursors” to superintelligence. Both the U.S. and U.K. bills additionally seek to compel each government to pursue a global treaty banning the development of superintelligent AI anywhere in the world. “A national bill does not solve the international problem where superintelligence can be developed somewhere else,” says Andrea Miotti, the founder of ControlAI, a campaign group that wrote the U.K. bill and consulted on the U.S. one. “The only way to address that is via international agreements between countries.” At an event in Westminster on Monday ahead of the British bill’s introduction, Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, issued a stark warning to a small audience including some U.K. lawmakers. “There's a significant chance of a Chernobyl-sized catastrophe” due to AI, he told them, “such as a coordinated sabotage of financial systems, communication...

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