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A handy digest of further reading and resources prompted by our articles

Alcohol

17 Sept 2024: Factsheet - The Cost of Alcohol-Related Harm in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024: Understanding the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) Report > Alcohol Healthwatch

Language

Don’t we all have lived experience? A proposed definition of “lived experience”.
Those of us who work in the mental health and addiction sector, particularly in recent years, have probably heard someone utter the phrase, “Lived experience! We all have lived experience!” People taking this position have a point. After all, to live is to experience.

Technology

The Coming Wave
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks-operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability. We are not prepared. As cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution, one poised to become the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. Driven by overwhelming strategic and commercial incentives, these tools will help address our global challenges and create vast wealth-but also upheaval on a once unimaginable scale. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces threaten the grand bargain of the nation state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma- unprecedented harms arising from unchecked openness on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? In this groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman establishes

Lived Experience

Family Connections – NEA-BPD New Zealand
NZ EmpowerMe | Auckland
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Sexy But Psycho: How The Patriarchy Uses Womens Trauma Again
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women hav
Research - Work Counts
Experts in IPS employment support for Aotearoa New Zealand

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