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Drawing blanks and winning: Quantifying global catastrophic risk associated with human ingenuity

Sustainable Futures
In his Vulnerable World Hypothesis Nick Bostrom recently compared invention to drawing balls out of a giant urn containing at least one black ball (i.e. an invention that would destroy civilization).
John-Oliver Engler, Jan Niklas Fischer
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Global Catastrophic Risk and the Drivers of Scientist Attitudes Towards Policy. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics, 2022
Nathan C, Hyams K.
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Global catastrophic and existential risks communication scale

Futures, 2018
Abstract Existential risks threaten the future of humanity, but they are difficult to measure. However, to communicate, prioritize and mitigate such risks it is important to estimate their relative significance. Risk probabilities are typically used, but for existential risks they are problematic due to ambiguity, and because quantitative ...
David Denkenberger, Alexey Turchin
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Wood Gasification: A Promising Strategy to Extend Fuel Reserves after Global Catastrophic Electricity Loss

Biomass
It is crucial to increase the resilience of the global food production and distribution systems against the growing concerns relating to factors that could cause global catastrophic infrastructure losses, such as nuclear war or a worldwide pandemic ...
David Nelson, Alexey Turchin, David Denkenberger   +2 more
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The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine
BackgroundRecent shifts in the global health funding landscape-most notably the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and possible reduced contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (Global ...
Allison Portnoy, Rebecca A Clark, Mark Jit, Christopher Finn McQuaid, Alexandra S Richards, Roel Bakker, Tom Sumner, Tomos O Prŷs-Jones, Rein M G J Houben, Richard G White, Katherine C Horton, Nicolas A Menzies   +11 more
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Managing and mitigating future public health risks: Planetary boundaries, global catastrophic risk, and inclusive wealth. [PDF]

Risk Anal
McLaughlin E, Beck M.
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Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest

Information, 2021
Corporations play a major role in artificial intelligence (AI) research, development, and deployment, with profound consequences for society. This paper surveys opportunities to improve how corporations govern their AI activities so as to better advance ...
Peter Cihon, Jonas Schuett, Seth D. Baum
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Medium-Term Artificial Intelligence and Society

Information, 2020
There has been extensive attention to near-term and long-term AI technology and its accompanying societal issues, but the medium-term has gone largely overlooked.
Seth D. Baum
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Systemic contributions to global catastrophic risk – ERRATUM

Global Sustainability
Constantin W. Arnscheidt, S. J. Beard, Tom Hobson, Paul Ingram, Luke Kemp, Lara Mani, Alexandru Marcoci, Kennedy Mbeva, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, Anders Sandberg, Lalitha S. Sundaram, Nico Wunderling   +11 more
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Methane Single Cell Protein: Potential to Secure a Global Protein Supply Against Catastrophic Food Shocks

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022
Global catastrophes such as a supervolcanic eruption, asteroid impact, or nuclear winter could cause global agricultural collapse due to reduced sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface.
Juan B. García Martínez, Joshua M. Pearce, James Throup, Jacob Cates, Maximilian Lackner, Maximilian Lackner, David C. Denkenberger, David C. Denkenberger   +7 more
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