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The existential risk space of climate change. [PDF]
Clim Change, 2022 AbstractClimate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but the high end of the risk, i.e., where risks become existential, is poorly framed, defined, and analyzed in the scientific literature. This gap is at odds with the fundamental relevance of existential risks for humanity, and it also limits the ability of ...
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Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity. [PDF]
Health Secur, 2017 In the decades to come, advanced bioweapons could threaten human existence. Although the probability of human extinction from bioweapons may be low, the expected value of reducing the risk could still be large, since such risks jeopardize the existence of all future generations.
Millett P, Snyder-Beattie A.
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Tools with general AI and no existential risk
AI and Ethics, 2023 AbstractAccording to philosophers and scientists in artificial intelligence (AI), future autonomous agents with general AI constitute an existential risk to humanity. This paper leverages results from neuroscience to propose tools with general AI and no existential risk.
Kjell Hole
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AI Consciousness and Existential Risk
CoRRIn AI, the existential risk denotes the hypothetical threat posed by an artificial system that would possess both the capability and the objective, either directly or indirectly, to eradicate humanity. This issue is gaining prominence in scientific debate due to recent technical advancements and increased media coverage.
Rufin VanRullen
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Social Sciences, 2021 Throughout the 20th century, several thinkers noticed that Technology was becoming a global phenomenon. More recently, US geologist Peter Haff claimed that a Technosphere is now in place and can be conceived as a new Earth geological system.
João Ribeiro Mendes
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Generative AI and the Problem of Existential Risk
arXiv.orgAbstract Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, Generative AI has been a focal point for concerns about AI’s perceived existential risk. Once a niche topic in AI research and philosophy, AI safety and existential risk has now entered mainstream debate among policy makers and leading foundation model developers, much to the chagrin of those
Lynette Webb, Daniel Schönberger
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Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AThere is broad consensus that AI presents risks, but considerable disagreement about the nature of those risks. These differing viewpoints can be understood as distinct narratives, each offering a specific interpretation of AI’s potential dangers.
Hoes E, Gilardi F.
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Pandemics, Existential and non-Existential Risks to Humanity [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020 The pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus has initiated an era of structural economic stagnation. With it, we have crossed a threshold in which the planet’s so-called “ecosystemic services” have started becoming “ecosystemic disservices”.
Luiz Marques
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Existential Risk, Climate Change, and Nonideal Justice
The Monist, 2023 Abstract Climate change is often described as an existential risk to the human species, but this terminology has generally been avoided in the climate-justice literature in analytic philosophy. I investigate the source of this disconnect and explore the prospects for incorporating the idea of climate change as an existential risk into ...
Alex McLaughlin
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Risk Analysis, 2023 Two key shortcomings of national risk assessments (NRAs) are: (1) lack of justification and transparency around important foundational assumptions of the process, (2) omission of almost all the largest scale risks.
Matt Boyd, Nick Wilson
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