All publications - existential risk

Achieving trust in artificial general intelligence : Secrets, precautions, and public scrutiny

2019

Adamson G. (2019) Achieving trust in artificial general intelligence : Secrets, precautions, and public scrutiny, in International Symposium on Technology and Society, Proceedings 2018-November, 66-70.

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Is a doomsday catastrophe likely?

2005

Tegmark M., Bostrom N. (2005) Is a doomsday catastrophe likely?, in Nature 438, [pages not available].

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On 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.

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Exclusion of black hole disaster scenarios at the LHC

2009

Koch B., Bleicher M., Stöcker H. (2009) Exclusion of black hole disaster scenarios at the LHC, in Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 672, 71-76.

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Assessing climate change's contribution to global catastrophic risk

2021

Belfield H., Beard S.J., Kemp L., Tzachor A., Torres P., Holt L., Avin S. (2021) Assessing climate change's contribution to global catastrophic risk, in Futures 127, [pages not available].

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Planet 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.

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Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions we know the answer, but what is the question?

1989

Officer C.B., Drake C.L. (1989) Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions we know the answer, but what is the question?, in Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 70, 659-661.

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Posthumanism 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.

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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis

2019

Bostrom N. (2019) The Vulnerable World Hypothesis, in Global Policy [volume not available], [pages not available].

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Would a super-intelligent AI necessarily be (super-) conscious?

2011

Torrance S. (2011) Would a super-intelligent AI necessarily be (super-) conscious?, in Machine Consciousness 2011: Self, Integration and Explanation - Proceedings of a Symposium at the AISB'11 Convention [volume not available], 67-74.

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