All publications - existential risk
Super-intelligence and (super-)consciousness
2012
Torrance S. (2012) Super-intelligence and (super-)consciousness, in International Journal of Machine Consciousness 4, 483-501.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIAn empirical critique of two versions of the doomsday argument- Gott's line and Leslie's wedge
2003
Sober E. (2003) An empirical critique of two versions of the doomsday argument- Gott's line and Leslie's wedge, in Synthese 135, 415-430.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIAn upper bound for the background rate of human extinction
2019
Bonsall M.B., Snyder-Beattie A.E., Ord T. (2019) An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction, in Scientific Reports 9, [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOIMass extinctions: Apocalypse now?
2011
Benton M.J. (2011) Mass extinctions: Apocalypse now?, in New Scientist 209, [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOIThe algorithms of emergency classification, decomposition and sorting for processing a catastrophe risk of large data and its applications
2015
Pang S.L. (2015) The algorithms of emergency classification, decomposition and sorting for processing a catastrophe risk of large data and its applications, in Xitong Gongcheng Lilun yu Shijian/System Engineering Theory and Practice 35, 743-750.
Search for the full text: GoogleThe bioethicist who cried "synthetic biology" An analysis of the function of bioterrorism predictions in bioethics
2017
Holm S. (2017) The bioethicist who cried "synthetic biology" An analysis of the function of bioterrorism predictions in bioethics, in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26, 230-238.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIPublic health and nuclear winter: addressing a catastrophic threat
2023
Vilhelmsson A., Baum S.D. (2023) Public health and nuclear winter: addressing a catastrophic threat, in Journal of Public Health Policy [volume not available], [pages not available].
Search for the full text: Google | DOIBig history and the future of humanity
2010
Spier F. (2010) Big history and the future of humanity, in Big History and the Future of Humanity [volume not available], 1-272.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIWorld water actions: Making water flow for all
2003
Guerquin F. (2003) World water actions: Making water flow for all, in World Water Actions: Making Water Flow for All [volume not available], 1-174.
Search for the full text: Google | DOIHow long until human-level AI? Results from an expert assessment
2011
Baum S.D., Goertzel B., Goertzel T.G. (2011) How long until human-level AI? Results from an expert assessment, in Technological Forecasting and Social Change 78, 185-195.
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