Resources

Polycrisis Research and Action Roadmap

Report by Michael Lawrence, Megan Shipman, Scott Janzwood, Constantin Arnscheidt, Jonathan Donges, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Christian Otto, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Nico Wunderling

Study on Diversity and Inclusion in Existential Risk Studies

Report by SJ Beard, Suzy Levy

Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Report by Girish Sastry, Lennart Heim, Haydn Belfield, Markus Anderljung, Miles Brundage, Julian Hazell, Cullen O’Keefe, Gillian K. Hadfield, Richard Ngo, Konstantin Pilz, George Gor, Emma Bluemke, Sarah Shoker, Janet Egan, Robert F. Trager, Shahar Avin, Adrian Weller, Yoshua Bengio, Diane Coyle

Safeguarding the safeguards: How best to promote AI alignment in the public interest

Report by Oliver Guest, Michael Aird, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Workshop Report: Managing the contribution of SRM and climate change to GCR

Report by Gideon Futerman, SJ Beard

People & Patterns

Report by Paul Ingram, Sarah Woods

Hazards with escalation potential: Governing the drivers of global and existential catastrophes

Report by Maxime Stauffer, Jenty Kirsch-Wood, Anne-Sophie Stevance, Lara Mani, Lalitha Sundaram, Sarah Dryhurst, Konrad Seifert

International Governance of Civilian AI: A Jurisdictional Certification Approach

Report by Robert F. Trager, Ben Harack, Anka Reuel, Allison Carnegie, Lennart Heim, Lewis Ho, Sarah Kreps, Ranjit Lall, Owen Larter, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Simon Staffell, José Jaime Villalobos

Workshop Report: Ninth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention: Where Next for the UK?

Report by Alexandra Klein, Tom Hobson, Lalitha Sundaram

Manifesto for the Responsible Development of Mathematical Works -- A Tool for Practitioners and for Management

Report by Maurice Chiodo, Dennis Müller

Infographic: AI:FAR

Report by Shahar Avin, Matthijs Maas, John Burden, Haydn Belfield, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Jess Whittlestone, Sam Clarke, Shin-Shin Hua, José Hernández-Orallo

Infographic: Natural Biorisk

Report by Freya Jephcott, Charlotte Hammer

Infographic: Nuclear Weapons

Report by Paul Ingram

Infographic: Climate Change

Report by SJ Beard, Luke Kemp, Ellen Quigley

Report: Building a Science-Policy Interface for tackling the Global Governance of Catastrophic and Existential Risks

Report by Clarissa Rios Rojas, Benjamin Payne, Yee Kuang Heng, Adam Fysh, Angela Kane, Jean-Marc Rickli, Kristel Fourie, Paul Ingram, Juan B. García Martínez, Mayleen Cabral, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

Infographic: Trends & Governance in Bio Risk

Report by Tom Hobson, Lalitha Sundaram

Public awareness of nuclear winter and implications for escalation control

Report by Paul Ingram

New Narratives in Global Catastrophic Risk - Part 1

Report by SJ Beard, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Xiaolei Zhang, Lorena Escudero

Submission of Evidence to the White House Office of Science and Technology’s Request for Input to a Five-Year Plan for Research on Climate Intervention

Report by Gideon Futerman, Goodwin Gibbons, SJ Beard

Book review: Moralizing Hope by Daniel Moellendorf

Report by Alex McLaughlin

Compute and Antitrust: Regulatory implications of the AI hardware supply chain, from chip design to cloud APIs

Report by Haydn Belfield, Shin-Shin Hua

Effective Enforceability of EU Competition Law Under Different AI Development Scenarios

Report by Shin-Shin Hua, Haydn Belfield

Submission of Evidence for the Biological Security Strategy Call for Evidence

Report by Clarissa Rios Rojas, William Sutherland, Silviu Petrovan

Submission of Evidence for the UK’s Biological Security Strategy

Report by Khalisah L. Zulkefli, Tan Jaymi, Sandra López-Vergès, John H. Malone, Alexander Kagansky, Abhi Veerakumarasivam, Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk, Clarissa Rios Rojas

Global catastrophic risk and planetary boundaries: The relationship to global targets and disaster risk reduction

Report by Tom Cernev

Submission of evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry on Tech and the future of UK Foreign Policy

Report by Tom Hobson, Brett Edwards

Submission of Evidence to the UK Biosecurity Strategy Call for Evidence

Report by Tom Hobson, Lalitha Sundaram, David Aldridge, Alec Christie, Brett Edwards, Malcolm Dando, Silviu Petrovan, Lijun Shang, William Sutherland, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Rebecca Smith

Emerging trends and technologies: a horizon scan for global public health

Report by Luke Kemp, Kai Ilchmann, Soatiana Rajatonirina, Anna Laura Ross

Response to NIST AI Risk Management Framework Concept Paper

Report by Haydn Belfield, Matthijs Maas, Shahar Avin, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

The Cambridge Principles: System Stewardship for Universal Owners

Report

WHO: Emerging Technologies and Dual-Use Concerns

Report by Luke Kemp, Kai Ilchmann, Soatiana Rajatonirina, Anna Laura Ross

Government Support and Policies For Fossil Fuel Production

Report by Chandra Bushan, Lucile Dufour, Lisa Fischer, Ipek Gençsü, Patrick Heller, Robin Hocquet, Natalie Jones, David Manley, Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Greg Muttitt, Angela Picciariello, Luma Ramos, Leo Roberts, Bronwen Tucker

The Critical Role of Transparency in Addressing the Production Gap

Report by Elisa Arond, Harro van Asselt, Siân Bradley, Chandra Bushan, Fergus Green, Ipek Gençsü, Aarti Gupta, Patrick Heller, Robin Hocquet, Natalie Jones, Angela Picciariello, David Manley, Georgia Piggot, Robert Schuwerk, Romain Weikmans

Reconfiguring Resilience for Existential Risk: Submission of Evidence to the Cabinet Office on the new UK National Resilience Strategy

Report by Matthijs Maas, Diane Cooke, Tom Hobson, Lalitha Sundaram, Haydn Belfield, Lara Mani, Jess Whittlestone, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Submission of Feedback to the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence

Report by Sam Clarke, Jess Whittlestone, Matthijs Maas, Haydn Belfield, José Hernández-Orallo, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Why are food shortages not listed as a risk in the National Risk Register?

Report by Sam Hilton, Sahil Shah

Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production

Report by Natalie Jones, Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Georgia Piggot, Michael Lazarus

Future Proof: the opportunity to transform the UK's resilience to extreme risks

Report by Toby Ord, Angus Mercer, Sophie Dannreuther, Haydn Belfield, Jess Whittlestone, Jade Leung, Markus Anderljung, Cassidy Nelson, Gregory Lewis, Piers Millett, Sam Hilton

Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in the Field of Global Risk

Report by Clarissa Rios Rojas, Catherine Richards, Catherine Rhodes

Submission of Evidence to The House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning

Report by Shahar Avin, Lalitha Sundaram, Jess Whittlestone, Matthijs Maas, Tom Hobson

Risk management in the UK: What can we learn from COVID-19 and are we prepared for the next disaster?

Report by Sam Hilton, Caroline Baylon

It Takes a Village: The Shared Responsibility of 'Raising' an Autonomous Weapon

Report by Amritha Jayanti, Shahar Avin

Tackling threats to informed decision-making in democratic societies: Promoting epistemic security in a technologically-advanced world

Report by Elizabeth Seger, Shahar Avin, Gavin Pearson, Mark Briers, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Helena Bacon

Divestment: Advantages and Disadvantages for the University of Cambridge

Report by Ellen Quigley, Emily Budgen, Anthony Odgers

Peru remains in lockdown, But promise of vaccine brings hope

Report by Clarissa Rios Rojas

Written Evidence: UK ARPA – Key Recommendations

Report by Nick Bostrom, Haydn Belfield, Sam Hilton

Response to the European Commission’s consultation on AI

Report by Haydn Belfield, José Hernández-Orallo, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Matthijs M. Maas, Jess Whittlestone

Written Evidence - Premature Procurement

Report by Haydn Belfield, Amritha Jayanti, Shahar Avin

Public Mental Health and COVID-19: a compassion based approach to recovery and resilience

Report by SJ Beard, Kate Brierton, Paul Gilbert, Felicia Huppert

AI and Data Governance issues in responding to COVID-19

Report by SJ Beard, James Belchamber

Toward Trustworthy AI: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

Report by Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jasmine Wang, Haydn Belfield, Gretchen Krueger, Gillian Hadfield, Heidy Khlaaf, Jingying Yang, Helen Toner, Ruth Fong, Tegan Maharaj, Pang Wei Koh, Sara Hooker, Jade Leung, Andrew Trask, Emma Bluemke, Jon Lebensold, Cullen O'Keefe, Mark Koren, Théo Ryffel, JB Rubinovitz, Tamay Besiroglu, Federica Carugati, Jack Clark, Peter Eckersley, Sarah de Haas, Martiza Johnson, Ben Laurie, Alex Ingerman, Igor Krawczuk, Amanda Askell, Rosario Cammarota, Andrew Lohn, Shagun Sodhani, Charlotte Stix, Peter Henderson, Logan Graham, Carina Prunkl, Bianca Martin, Elizabeth Seger, Noa Zilberman, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Frens Kroeger, Girish Sastry, Rebecca Kagan, Adrian Weller, Brian Tse, Beth Barnes, Allan Dafoe, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, David Kreuger, Carrick Flynn, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Lisa Dyer, Saif Khan, Markus Anderljung, Yoshua Bengio

Informing management of lockdowns and a phased return to normality: a Solution Scan of non-pharmaceutical options to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Report by William Sutherland, David C. Aldridge, Philip Martin, Catherine Rhodes, Gorm Shackelford, SJ Beard, Andrew J. Bladon, Cameron Brick, Mark Burgman, Alec P. Christie, Lynn V. Dicks, Andrew P. Dobson, Harriet Downey, Fangyuan Hua, Amelia S.C. Hood, Alice C. Hughes, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Douglas MacFarlane, Anne-Christine Mupepele, William H. Morgan, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Stefan J. Marciniak, Cassidy Nelson, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Katherine A. Sainsbury, Rebecca K. Smith, Lalitha Sundaram, Hannah Tankard, Nigel G. Taylor, Ann Thornton, John Watkins, Thomas B. White, Kate Willott, Silviu O. Petrovan, Haydn Belfield

Identifying and Assessing the Drivers of Global Catastrophic Risk

Report by SJ Beard, Phil Torres

Conference Report: Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk (CCCR2018)

Report by SJ Beard, Catherine Rhodes

The Cartography of Global Catastrophic Governance

Report by Luke Kemp, Catherine Rhodes

Should Artificial Intelligence Governance be Centralised? Six Design Lessons from History

Report by Peter Cihon, Matthijs M. Maas, Luke Kemp

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

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

Report by Karina Vold, Jess Whittlestone

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

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

CSER Policy Brief: Emerging opportunities and risks associated with biological engineering

Report by Bonnie Wintle

Written Evidence to Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Report by SJ Beard, Shahar Avin, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Martina Kunz, Andrew Ware

Global Catastrophic Risks 2017

Report

Eighth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention: Where Next?

Report by Catherine Rhodes

Climate Ethics and Climate Economics: Risk, Uncertainty and Catastrophe Scenarios

Report by SJ Beard, Kai Speikerman

Biological Extinction - Proceedings

Report

“Black Sky” Infrastructure and Societal Resilience Workshop

Report

Data Analytics for Sustainability and Environmental Risk Workshop Report

Report by Shahar Avin

Personal Identity and Public Policy

Report by SJ Beard, Timothy Campbell

Resetting the frame

Report by Catherine Rhodes, Seth Baum, Ariel Conn, Sebastian Farquhar, Malini Mehra, Magali Reghezza, Ama Van Dantzig, Alexandra Wandel, Robert Wiblin, Kevin Wong

Climate Change: A Risk Assessment

Report by David King, Daniel Schrag, Zhou Dadi, Qi Ye, Arunabha Ghosh

A Global Apollo Programme To Combat Climate Change

Report by Martin Rees, David King, John Browne, Richard Layard, Gus O'Donnell, Nicholas Stern, Adair Turner

Climate Change and The Common Good

Report by Partha Dasgupta, Martin Rees, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Peter Raven, Mgr Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Margaret Archer, Paul J Crutzen, Pierre Léna, Yuan Tse Lee, Mario J Molina, Jeffrey Sachs, Joachim Schellnhuber

Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It

Report by Huw Price, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Unprecedented Technological Risks

Report by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Nick Bostrom, Nick Beckstead, William MacAskill, Neil Bowerman, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Toby Ord