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An Existential Approach to Risk Perception

Risk Analysis, 2002
Existential, or existential‐phenomenological philosophical approaches to the social psychology of risk perception provide a novel framework for understanding issues that are common to all humanity, such as fear of death, freedom and responsibility, isolation and meaninglessness, as these anxieties are a function of existing, or being‐in‐the‐world ...
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Examining popular arguments against AI existential risk: a philosophical analysis

Ethics and Information Technology
Concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential existential risks have garnered significant attention, with figures like Geoffrey Hinton and Dennis Hassabis advocating for robust safeguards against catastrophic outcomes. Prominent scholars,
Bartlomiej Chomanski, Carina Prunkl, Lode Lauwaert   +2 more
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Existential risk and the justice turn in bioethics

Journal of Medical Ethics
Paolo Corsico
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A Review of the Evidence for Existential Risk from AI via Misaligned Power-Seeking

arXiv.org, 2023
Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked growing concerns among experts, policymakers, and world leaders regarding the potential for increasingly advanced AI systems to pose existential risks.
Rose Hadshar
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Evaluating Methods for Estimating Existential Risks

Risk Analysis, 2013
Researchers and commissions contend that the risk of human extinction is high, but none of these estimates have been based upon a rigorous methodology suitable for estimating existential risks. This article evaluates several methods that could be used to estimate the probability of human extinction.
Bruce, Tonn, Dorian, Stiefel
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Why do Experts Disagree on Existential Risk and P(doom)? A Survey of AI Experts

arXiv.org
The development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is likely to be one of humanity's most consequential technological advancements. Leading AI labs and scientists have called for the global prioritization of AI safety citing existential risks ...
Severin Field
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The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity, TobyOrd, Hachette Books, New York, NY, 2020. 480 pp. $30.00 (cloth)

, 2021
Ord's view of humanity's potential not only shapes much of his moral argument for prioritizing existential risks,[4] but also the comparative analysis of existential risks.
N. Sears
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The Economics of p(doom): Scenarios of Existential Risk and Economic Growth in the Age of Transformative AI

Economic Modelling
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to a wide range of predictions about its long-term impact on humanity. A central focus is the potential emergence of transformative AI (TAI), eventually capable of outperforming humans in all ...
Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner
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Existential Risks: Exploring a Robust Risk Reduction Strategy

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2014
A small but growing number of studies have aimed to understand, assess and reduce existential risks, or risks that threaten the continued existence of mankind. However, most attention has been focused on known and tangible risks. This paper proposes a heuristic for reducing the risk of black swan extinction events.
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Motivations for Artificial Intelligence, for Deep Learning, for ALife: Mortality and Existential Risk

Artificial Life
We survey the general trajectory of artificial intelligence (AI) over the last century, in the context of influences from Artificial Life. With a broad brush, we can divide technical approaches to solving AI problems into two camps: GOFAIstic (or ...
Inman Harvey
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