Thanking UN for its important recent science summits aiming at a massive upgrade of UN

Sent to the organizer of these summits: Thank you so much, Declan, for your fantastic creation of science summits and of a bold new vision needed to give reality to the highest goals of Guterres in trying to keep our species alive. As you said many times, we need a much stronger pathway for information from the very best and most advanced new insights from science to help with a wide range of SDGs, INCLUDING the goal of survival of our species as one of the key goals which needs to be represented and addressed in a solid scientific way.

Many of us are eager to help as best we can, even if it must be informal for now, simply because we care about the future of our species. I personally was excited when you added a focus on how quantum technology might help with climate issues, because that is a highly specialized and demanding area where I have a unique comparative advantage, knowing how it actually works. (Attached is the one page abstract, with links, to the plenary talk I gave last July, as I received the Frank Rosenblatt Award, IEEE's highest technical fields award for areas led by the IEEE WCCI conference reviewed in the abstract.) 

I am cc'ing the world President of the IEEE, which is extremely important as a source of input and suggestions to your new networks. 

 To begin with, I propose that the science input to UN start out by adding a new highly focused effort to address the six grand challenges (four existential threats and two hopes) in the jpeg attached. Guterres' major new thrust on our common heritage actually began when he and Kerry appeared on TV and before the Security Council, calling for a new office in the human security group under the security council, to address the risk of climate extinction. That goal was before its time, because no one had prepared the groundwork enough, but that goal should not be forgotten. At the start of 2009, the year when I handled climate issues for Senator Specter, I did not yet know that climate change really is an existential threat, but when I returned to NSF I learned just how real it is, working with the world's real scientific leaders on ocean currents; for a brief but well supported summary, see https://build-a-world.org/doku.php?id=climate:risks . 

 How could quantum technology be used here to make a real difference in climate outcomes? Many, many people try to find clever, clear little ways to use AI or quantum technology to be "relevant" in some sense, but if we focus directly on how to have maximum real benefit for minimum cost, we end up with a VERY different story from what comes out of those efforts (or from the EU and Biden stakeholder systems, biased towards vested interests and older technologies.). Some stakeholders point to misleading imputed data, like the CO2 data imputed to the commercial building sector, which is mainly due to making the electricity USED in that sector. In primary data, making electricity and transportation actually account for over 80% of the new CO2 from the US. That is why breakthroughs in those two sectors are the most urgent unmet opportunity. 

New quantum technology is most important in the next decade or two because of how it allows a revolution in the management and distribution of electricity, from the global transmission level all the way down to the control of power electronics. That in turn would expand the opportunities which already exist for much greater use of large-scale solar farms, using new technology, WITHOUT the doubling or multiplication by ten which Von Der Leyen has been told is necessary with renewable electricity. 

The coming decade would be much less painful to the EU (and to economies dependent on the EU, like Africa) if people at her level had full access to the real menu of proven new technologies and market design NOW AVAILABLE from the IEEE community. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1acZRpjyjCLoQuqzJef74e0cmHeyoKJdr?usp=sharing Again, new technologies and market designs already exist for electric power management which would benefit EU and Africa IN THIS DECADE; the new quantum options, which go far beyond the capabilities of anyone using quantum Turing machines (>99% of the quantum computing experts in the US) can take it even further. 

True Quantum Artificial General Intelligence (QAGI) is most important in the coming decade because of how it can help with the FIRST existential threat on my list, the complex of threats related to changes in internet/AGI/IOT far greater than most laymen begin to appreciate. For example, it could allow an open, global development of "quantum bromium" to detect backdoors in computer chips and boards, one of the two really big new threats mentioned in the IEEE EPC paper attached. Many believe that the threat of a veto from China, due to inertia by lower level diplomats representing China, was the reason why Gueterres and Kerry had to back off from doing anything about climate extinction. But Xi himself put out a major policy pronouncement a few years ago, repeated in a post from the Foreign Ministry of China, urging the world to work together for new arrangements on internet, to prevent the worst, and specifically to create open transparent systems to cut back on backdoors in hardware and software! 

MY proposal, for an expanded office to address ALL FOUR key existential threats, would directly address an important valid high priority of Xi himself. Your efforts (which I hope all of us can support) could provide the new solid networks needed to make such an office really work. Just FYI, the President of Kazakhstan recently proposed new efforts on the biotech cluster of threats, which would also fit here. Perhaps HE could support this proposal as well. Many of us also know how the impressive work of Alibeck (who visited my area of Virginia a few years ago) supports his claim of real scientific strength. 

 In the end, I now view the entire system of life, mind and soul in our solar system as a system VERY similar to a small, young fish in an aquarium. 

The actual new photo of our cosmos next to it is just a view of the ACTUAL aquarium we are swimming in, a vast pulsing network ("ocean" or delta) of matter and energy, in which even the galaxies appear as glowing dots. I would pray for new efforts to try to get greater resolution in these photos, perhaps by exploring new uses and deployments of the new technology for axial HIggs detection on a tabletop, but by other efforts with hope of scaling. As a little fish in a gigantic aquarium, we the people of earth may have little chance of being one of the ones which actually survives, given the very serious real threats before us. But if we are true to our deepest impulses from nature, we will fully and energetically express our three overarching priorities -- to survive, to grow and to better understand the larger aquarium we must try to survive and grow in. The six grand challenges here reflect our deepest inner drive to survive and grow, as a whole being, but the understanding is also a priority, and also within your scope. That is why I also attach the slides for a 20 minute talk I recently gave to Bangalore, invited by Come Carpentier, supported by the INdia Foundation, including a Cabinet minister of India who is strongly committed to this kind of growth and might be important to what you are building. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIAtE4ydjN0

 Best of luck to us all. We all need it.