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The Difficulties of Assessing Existential Risk

One of the biggest challenges facing the area of existential risk research is that of…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallAugust 2, 2021
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Human Collective Behaviour and Existential Risk

A recently published paper authored by an interdisciplinary group of 17 researchers representing 21 institutions…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJuly 26, 2021
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Cognitive Biases and Existential Risk

In his iconic 2011 book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow', the psychologist Daniel Kahneman presents an…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJuly 20, 2021
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The Unilateralist’s Curse: How altruistic intentions can cause harm

In 2018, a team of Canadian and American researchers published a paper describing their work…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJuly 12, 2021
Artificial Intelligence

Important Safety Considerations for Current AI Research

Last week's post explored some of the potential philosophical issues raised in association with the…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJuly 5, 2021
Artificial Intelligence

How could Artificial General Intelligence pose an existential risk?

Estimated by Oxford philosopher Toby Ord to constitute approximately a one in ten chance of…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJune 28, 2021
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Even back in the ’50s, leading academics were warning of existential risk

On the 9th July 1955, at a press conference at Caxton Hall in London, Bertrand…
Ben Bucknall
Ben BucknallJune 21, 2021
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Existential risk mentioned in Dutch news outlet

Existential risk has just made the Dutch press, albeit in a side show next to…
Otto Barten
Otto BartenApril 5, 2021

Existential risk increasingly present in media

Existential risk, or study of the ways in which humanity might go extinct, is a…
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adminMarch 15, 2021

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