All publications - existential risk
The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk
2020
Manheim D. (2020) The Fragile World Hypothesis: Complexity, Fragility, and Systemic Existential Risk, in Futures 122, [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOICoping with ecological catastrophe: Crossing major thresholds
2004
Cairns Jr. J. (2004) Coping with ecological catastrophe: Crossing major thresholds, in Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 4, 69-79.
Search for the full text: GooglePlanet doom: Nine scenarios for imminent apocalypse-only one is global warming
2010
Plumer B. (2010) Planet doom: Nine scenarios for imminent apocalypse-only one is global warming, in New Republic 241.0, 23-25.
Search for the full text: GoogleThe Vulnerable World Hypothesis
2019
Bostrom N. (2019) The Vulnerable World Hypothesis, in Global Policy [volume not available], [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOIOn Defining Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
2017
Palmer M.J., Tiu B.C., Weissenbach A.S., Relman D.A. (2017) On Defining Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, in Health Security 15, 347-348.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIGeo-engineering gone awry: A new partial solution of Fermi's paradox
2004
Ćirković M.M., Cathcart R.B. (2004) Geo-engineering gone awry: A new partial solution of Fermi's paradox, in JBIS - Journal British Interplanetary Society 57, 209-215.
Search for the full text: GoogleThe far future argument for confronting catastrophic threats to humanity: Practical significance and alternatives
2015
Baum S.D. (2015) The far future argument for confronting catastrophic threats to humanity: Practical significance and alternatives, in Futures 72, 86-96.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIHow an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences
2019
Kristensen H.M., Turco R.P., Lovenduski N.S., McKinzie M., Harrison C.S., Robock A., Toon O.B., Xia L., Peterson R.J., Bardeen C.G. (2019) How an India-Pakistan nuclear war could start—and have global consequences, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 75, 273-279.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIPosthumanism and human extinction: Apocalypse, species, and two posthuman ecologies
2020
Odorčák J., Bakošová P. (2020) Posthumanism and human extinction: Apocalypse, species, and two posthuman ecologies, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 19, 47-62.
Search for the full text: GoogleBiotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations
2019
Sotos J.G. (2019) Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations, in International Journal of Astrobiology [volume not available], 1-10.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIManually-curated Bibliography
Other bibliographies are to be announced for specific x-risks, e.g., artificial intelligence or asteroid impact.
ML Bibliography
Publications predicted to be relevant by our Machine Learning (ML) model, but not yet assessed by humans and thus not yet in the non-ML bibliography