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Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk
2008The word ‘nanotechnology’ covers a broad range of scientific and technical disciplines. Fortunately, it will not be necessary to consider each separately in order to discuss the global catastrophic risks of nanotechnology, because most of them, which we will refer to collectively as nanoscale technologies, do not appear to pose significant global ...
Chris Phoenix, Mike Treder
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2008
A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again.
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A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again.
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On the governance of global and catastrophic risks
International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 2011The focus of the present paper regards the identification and treatment of critical issues in the process of societal decision making concerning management of global and catastrophic risks. Taking basis in recent works by the author, the paper in particular addresses Finally, new results and perspectives are presented on the issue of allocation of ...
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Classification of global catastrophic risks connected with artificial intelligence
AI & SOCIETY, 2018A classification of the global catastrophic risks of AI is presented, along with a comprehensive list of previously identified risks. This classification allows the identification of several new risks. We show that at each level of AI’s intelligence power, separate types of possible catastrophes dominate.
Alexey Turchin, David Denkenberger
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Natural Global Catastrophic Risks
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022Lara Mani +2 more
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Public Theology and Global Catastrophic Risk
International Journal of Public TheologyAbstract We live, by virtue of an unprecedented interconnectedness driven by massively uneven, wealth-dominated processes of globalisation, in an era of global risk for which human beings must take responsibility and to which they must respond collectively.
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Assessing climate change’s contribution to global catastrophic risk
Futures, 2021Shahar Avin, SJ Beard, Luke Kemp
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"The International Panel on Global Catastrophic Risks (IPGCR)"
This article motivates and describes a potential International Panel on Global Catastrophic Risks (IPGCR). The IPGCR will focus only on GCRs: risks that could cause a global collapse of human civilization or human extinction. The IPGCR seeks to fit an important and currently unoccupied niche: an international expert organization whose only purview is ...Bressler, R. Daniel, Alstott, Jeff
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