All publications - existential risk
Coalitions and catastrophic climate change
2013
Schofield N. (2013) Coalitions and catastrophic climate change, in Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After [volume not available], 725-762.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIRational universal benevolence: Simpler, safer, and wiser than "friendly AI"
2011
Waser M. (2011) Rational universal benevolence: Simpler, safer, and wiser than "friendly AI", in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6830 LNAI, 153-162.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIExistential Security: Towards a Security Framework for the Survival of Humanity
2020
Sears N.A. (2020) Existential Security: Towards a Security Framework for the Survival of Humanity, in Global Policy 11, 255-266.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIAvoiding global collapse
2007
Ritter S.K. (2007) Avoiding global collapse, in Chemical and Engineering News 85, [pages not available].
Search for the full text: GoogleMegascale processes: Natural disasters and human behavior
2009
Kieffer S.W., Barton P., Chesworth W., Palmer A.R., Reitan P., Zen E.-A. (2009) Megascale processes: Natural disasters and human behavior, in Special Paper of the Geological Society of America 453, 77-86.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIOn Searle and the collapse of civilization
2020
González-Fernández R. (2020) On Searle and the collapse of civilization, in Cinta de Moebio [volume not available], 255-266.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIArtificial superintelligence and its limits: why AlphaZero cannot become a general agent
2020
Jebari K., Lundborg J. (2020) Artificial superintelligence and its limits: why AlphaZero cannot become a general agent, in AI and Society [volume not available], [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOITesting for causal relationships between large pyroclastic volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions
1992
Erwin D.H., Vogel T.A. (1992) Testing for causal relationships between large pyroclastic volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions, in Geophysical Research Letters 19, 893-896.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIPotential of microbial protein from hydrogen for preventing mass starvation in catastrophic scenarios
2021
Throup J., Egbejimba J., Pearce J.M., García Martínez J.B., Matassa S., Denkenberger D.C. (2021) Potential of microbial protein from hydrogen for preventing mass starvation in catastrophic scenarios, in Sustainable Production and Consumption 25, 234-247.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIExistential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being
2024
Kaczmarek P., Beard S.J. (2024) Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Well-Being, in Monist 107, 157-175.
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