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What Is the Risk That AI Will Kill Us? And what should we do about it?

7 January 2026 • 7 min read

This post reviews a recent book about AI risk, but more importantly, it's a call for our industry to wake up to the possibility that AI, as well as being amazing, could potentially kill us all. We need to start taking the risks of AI seriously.

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  • Microsoft 365 Copilot: Overview & Key Concepts - January 2026

    Here is a brief outline of what Copilot is and the key decisions you need to make, such as whether to use the standalone chat or the within app features, and what is the difference between Work and Web in terms of security and the information being used.

    2 January 20266 min read
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    All the studies I've seen, including NewMR's own studies, show that AI is being widely adopted across the research industry. But is it generating ROI? Indeed, how should we measure ROI? This second question is the main topic I will examine in this post.

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