Resources

Justifying subsistence emissions, past and present

Peer-reviewed paper by Alex McLaughlin

The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage

Peer-reviewed paper by Sabin Roman, Erika Palmer

Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: a living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk

Peer-reviewed paper by Gorm Shackelford, Luke Kemp, Catherine Rhodes, Lalitha Sundaram, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, SJ Beard, Haydn Belfield, Julius Weitzdörfer, Shahar Avin, Dag Sørebø, Elliot M. Jones, John B. Hume, David Price, David Pyle, Daniel Hurt, Theodore Stone, Harry Watkins, Lydia Collas, William Sutherland

The tension between openness and prudence in responsible AI research

Peer-reviewed paper by Jess Whittlestone, Aviv Ovadya

Zia Mian: A Conceivable Horizon of Horror (30 Oct 2019)

Video by Zia Mian

Grethe Helene Evjen: Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Saving Seeds for Eternity (18 Nov 2019)

Video by Grethe Helene Evjen

An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards

Peer-reviewed paper by SJ Beard, Thomas Rowe, James Fox

Defining and Unpacking Transformative AI

Report by Ross Gruetzemacher, Jess Whittlestone

Policy options to close the production gap

Report by Ploy Achakulwisut, Harro van Asselt, Peter Christoff, Richard Denniss, Fergus Green, Natalie Jones, Georgia Piggot, Oliver Sartor, Fernando Tudela, Cleo Verkuijl, Oscar Widerberg

Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-Induced Financial Distress

Peer-reviewed paper by Julius Weitzdörfer, SJ Beard

Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past

Peer-reviewed paper by Patrick Kaczmarek, SJ Beard

Privacy, autonomy and personalised targeting: rethinking how personal data is used.

Report by Karina Vold, Jess Whittlestone

How to respond to the potential malicious uses of artificial intelligence?

Peer-reviewed paper by Haydn Belfield

Book Review: Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy

Peer-reviewed paper by SJ Beard

Policy series Managing global catastrophic risks: Part 1 Understand

Report

Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research: considerations and potential release practices for machine learning

Report by Aviv Ovadya, Jess Whittlestone

Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions

Peer-reviewed paper by R.M. Colvin, Luke Kemp, Anita Talberg, Clare De Castella, C. Downie, S. Friel, Will J. Grant, Mark Howden, Frank Jotzo, Francis Markham, Michael J. Platow

Mediation Without Measures: Conflict Resolution in Climate Diplomacy

Peer-reviewed paper by Luke Kemp

Autonomy and machine learning at the interface of nuclear weapons, computers and people

Peer-reviewed paper by Shahar Avin, S. M. Amadae

The Future of Feed: Integrating Technologies to Decouple Feed Production from Environmental Impacts

Peer-reviewed paper by Asaf Tzachor

Black Elephants (CCCR2018)

Video by Peter Ho

Risk Innovation: The roles of creativity, imagination and rigour in exploring existential risk (CCCR2018)

Video by Andrew Maynard

Making the Most of Limited Evidence In Global Catastrophic Risk Analysis (CCCR2018)

Video by Seth Baum

Introduction to the 2018 Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk

Video by Catherine Rhodes

The Public International Law Perspective on Evaluating Existential Risks (CCCR2018)

Video by Silja Vöneky

Communicating (Existential) Risks Responsibly (CCCR2018)

Video by Alexandra Freeman

Understanding Risk for effective communication (CCCR2018)

Video by Kristel Fourie

Sexy vs Unsexy catastrophic risks: complexity, creeping normalcy, and conceit (CCCR2018)

Video by Karin Kuhlemann

How soon will the ice apocalypse come? (CCCR2018)

Video by Tamsin Edwards

Probabilities, methodologies and the evidence base in existential risk assessments (CCCR2018)

Video by SJ Beard

Discounting, aggregation and the ecological fallacy (CCCR2018)

Video by Matthew Rendall

Assessing contributions of major emitters' Paris‐era decisions to future temperature extremes

Peer-reviewed paper by Sophie C. Lewis, Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Glenn Althor, Andrew D. King, Luke Kemp

Guest Editorial - Special Issue: Existential risk to humanity

Peer-reviewed paper by Olle Häggström, Catherine Rhodes

Special Issue: Existential risk to humanity

Peer-reviewed paper by Olle Häggström, Catherine Rhodes

Extremes

Book by Duncan Needham, Julius Weitzdörfer

Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion

Peer-reviewed paper by SJ Beard

Response to the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence's Draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

Report by Haydn Belfield, Shahar Avin

A Proposal for International AI Governance

Report by Luke Kemp, Peter Cihon, Matthijs Michiel Maas, Haydn Belfield, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Jade Leung

Business School Rankings for the 21st Century

Report by David Pitt-Watson, Ellen Quigley

What Is Unfair about Unequal Brute Luck? An Intergenerational Puzzle

Peer-reviewed paper by SJ Beard

Surveying Safety-relevant AI Characteristics

Peer-reviewed paper by Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Fernando Martınez-Plumed, Shahar Avin, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Exploring artificial intelligence futures

Peer-reviewed paper by Shahar Avin

Bridging near- and long-term concerns about AI

Paper by Stephen Cave, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh