existential risk

International Catastrophe Law: From Nuclear Weapons to Advanced AI

The rights and safety of people worldwide — and the future of humanity itself — are increasingly threatened by global catastrophic …

José Jaime Villalobos, Matthijs Maas, Christoph Winter
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From Evaluation to Action: Ethics, Epistemology, and Extreme Technological Risk

Recent years have seen the emergence of Existential Risk Studies (ERS), a rich field focused on understanding and mitigating a range of …

Lalitha Sundaram, Matthijs Maas, SJ Beard
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Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk
Military conflicts could cause global catastrophes today due to the intersection of AI and nuclear weapons development. Security …
Matthijs Maas, Kayla Lucero-Matteucci, Di Cooke
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Apocalypse Now? Initial Lessons from COVID-19 for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
This paper explores the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic through the framework of existential risks – a class of extreme risks that threaten …
Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Matthijs Maas
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Long-term trajectories of human civilization
This paper aims to formalize long-term trajectories of human civilization as a scientific and ethical field of study. The long-term …
Seth D. Baum, Stuart Armstrong, Timoteus Ekenstedt, Olle Häggström, Robin Hanson, Karin Kuhlemann, Matthijs Maas, James D. Miller, Markus Salmela, Anders Sandberg, Kaj Sotala, Phil Torres, Alexey Turchin, Roman V. Yampolskiy
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Governing Boring Apocalypses: A New Typology of Existential Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Existential Risk Research
In recent years, the study of existential risks has explored a range of natural and man-made catastrophes, from supervolcano eruption …
Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Matthijs Maas
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