Reading List 2022

AI

• “Military Artificial Intelligence as Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk” by Matthijs Maas, Kayla Matteucci & Di Cooke
• “Tina Park & Panel - Addressing the Challenges of Inclusive Practises in AI Development” video featuring Tina Park, Jess Whittlestone, Shahar Avin & David Krueger
• “Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races” by Haydn Belfield & Christian Ruhl
• "Technology with Jessica Fostekew and guests Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth" Guilty Feminist podcast featuring Elenor Drage & Kerry Mackereth of the  The Good Robot podcast

Understanding Risk and Resilience

• “Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks” by Shahar Avin, Bonnie Wintle, Julius Weitzdörfer, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Bill Sutherland & Martin Rees
• “Why Catastrophic Threats Should Worry Us More” by Martin Rees
• “Seven Qsuestions for Existential Risk Studies” by Lalitha Sundaram, Matthijs Maas & SJ Beard
• “Black Sky” Infrastructure and Societal Resilience” workshop report
• “Global Challenges Foundation 2021 report”  by the Global Challenges Fund
• "Future Foods For Risk-Resilient Diets” by Asaf Tzachor, Catherine Richards & Lauren Holt
• “David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe” on 80,000 hours podcast 
• “Will humans survive the century?” BBC podcast featuring Anders Sandberg,  Phil Torres, Karin Kuhlemann, SJ Beard, Lalitha Sundaram, Seth Baum
• "Global catastrophic risk and planetary boundaries: The relationship to global targets and disaster risk reduction" by Tom Cernev
• FLI Newsletter by the Future of Life Institute 

Natural risk

• “Time to prepare for big eruptions” by Lara Mani & Mike Cassidy
• "Vincy Voices - Lessons From La Soufriere" Short Film by Lara Mani & the UWI Seismic Research Centre
• “Global catastrophic risk from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions” by Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor & Paul Cole
• "What if the Dinosaurs had had a Space Program" by Lindley Johnson, NASA
• “When it strikes are we ready? Lessons Identified at the 7th Planetary Defense Conference in Preparing for a Near-Earth Object Impact Scenario” 
• “On the assessment of volcanic eruptions as global catastrophic or existential risks” by Mike Cassidy & Lara Mani

Global Catastrophic Environmental Risks

• "Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse” by Catherine Richards, Richard Lupton & Julian Allwood
• “Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level Event?” with Mark Lynas
• “A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk” by Luke Kemp & Aaron Tang
• "Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry” Ellen Quigley & Natalie Jones on the Future of Life 'Not cool' podcast
• “Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past”  by SJ Beard & Patrick Kaczmarek
• “Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios” by Luke Kemp

Biology

• “Robin Gorna & Panel - Communicating Risk and Uncertainty. Lessons Across Pandemics” featuring Robin Gorna, Julius Weitzdörfer, Lalitha Sundaram & Jochem Rietveld
• “Biosafety in DIY-bio laboratories: from hype to policy“ by Lalitha Sundaram
• “Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics” by Joshua T. Monrad, Jonas B. Sandbrink & Neil G. Cherian
• "Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development" on the 80,000 hours podcast
• "Information Hazards in Biotechnology" by Gregory Lewis, Piers Millett, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder-Beattie & Gigi Gronvall
• "Exploring Science and Technology Review Mechanisms under the Biological Weapons Convention" report by James Revill, Alisha Anand & Giacomo Persi Paoli
• "Why Didn't Technology Save Us From COVID-19?" with Alexa Hagerty,  Charlotte Hammer, Freya Jephcott & Shahar Avin