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CFG is an independent think-and-do tank created to help decision-makers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. https://cfg.eu
How can Europe move from reacting to shaping the global tech landscape?
Join us at Think & Do 2025 to grapple with defining questions of emerging technologies.
Explore strange futures and connect with a community of decisionmakers, builders, and thinkers.
Agenda & registration below!
“Who decides who decides?”
We invited Kim Stanley Robinson to share his thinking on the deeper questions behind technological acceleration.
It’s a theme we return to often at CFG.
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Meet the #EHFG2025 speakers ⬇️
On 3 October, Virginia Mahieu, Neurotechnology Director at the @cfg-thinktank.bsky.social, will join the third EHFG plenary:
🤝 Solidarity in a digitalised world
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#SolidarityInHealth
How will emerging technologies shape the way we think, feel, and behave?
In this kickoff piece, our team outlines where the science stands, why current policy responses fall short, and how Europe can build brain-positive governance for what’s coming next.
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🧬 Join us at our next #Tech&Tonic on Thursday Sept. 18 for a discussion on the promises and perils of synthetic biology with David Winickoff and Ashley Noriega!
There’ll be food and drinks, of course!
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🧬 A policymaker’s guide to the biotech revolution
Today we launch the intro to the Emerging biotech atlas — the first in a 5-part series by Ashley Noriega, Faouzi Braza, and Velislava Petrova.
The atlas maps six fast-moving areas of biotechnology!
Dive in here: cfg.eu/biotech-atla...
What risks could solar geoengineering pose? 🌍
In this clip Aasima Kamal Mowni, Ping-Ping Narenpitak and Thelma Krug outline the political and ethical risks of solar geoengineering, from uneven climate outcomes to global conflict.
Link to the full video in the comments 👇
🎬Tech, power, and the future: movies and shows we’re watching this autumn
Our team at CFG pulled together five films and series that stayed with us because they ask big questions about where technology is taking us, and what it means to be human.
🌍 Could we cool the planet by reflecting sunlight?
In this first video of our four-part video series, Matthias Honegger and Cynthia Scharf explain what Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) is. All of this is not without risks — next week’s video will explore those.
Link to full video in the comments
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson has been thinking about geoengineering longer than most policymakers.
In this clip, he explains why “technologies of desperation” like carbon removal and solar radiation management may soon shift from fiction to fact.
Find the video below 👇
🧬 AI-enabled synthetic biology is moving fast — but how can Europe steer it responsibly and claim a stronger role in global governance?
Join our next Tech & Tonic discussion:
🗓 18/09/2025
🕔 18:00
📍Av. des Arts 44, 1040 Brussels
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What kind of shock could AI bring to Europe’s labour markets?
Our latest analysis by Felicity Reddel, Sam Bogerd and Jakob Graabak argues that the 2025 EU Strategic Foresight Report should stress-test labour market preparedness for AI-driven disruption.
📘 Link to the full piece below
What if generative AI could help draft policy—and citizens could help write the future?
We asked Kim Stanley Robinson how he sees AI reshaping democracy. His take: powerful technologies can supercharge civic participation—or undermine it from the top down.
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🌠👩🚀We reached out to sci-fi legend Kim Stanley Robinson to hear his take on the issues we work on every day!
In this clip, Robinson reflects on the defining story of our time: a decade where disaster and progress are accelerating side by side!
Link to video below!
October is coming..
06.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1🤖 What kind of future could artificial intelligence create?
At CFG, we’ve been asking not just what should happen with AI — but what could.
📘 Link to our full report in the comments!
📢 !! Announcing our first speakers for Think & Do 2025: Control / Alt / Lead
Anu Bradford, @mariafarrell.bsky.social, and @javierespft.bsky.social will help us shape the debate on how we respond to technological change!
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