Dear friends, When I look at debates about risks from artificial intelligence, I see a lot of parallels with debates over global warming. Both involve global catastrophic risks that are, to a large extent, driven by highly profitable industries. Indeed, today most of...
Dear friends, This month I am proud to announce a new paper, “Long-Term Trajectories of Human Civilization”. The paper calls for attention to the fate of human civilization over time scales of millions, billions, or trillions of years into the future....
Artificial Intelligence GCRI Associate Roman Yampolskiy gave a talk on AI safety to the Global Challenges Summit 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan May 17-19. GCRI Executive Director Seth Baum and GCRI Associate Roman Yampolskiy participated in a workshop on “AI...
Dear friends, It has been a productive month for GCRI, with new papers by several of our affiliates. Here, I would like to highlight one by Steven Umbrello and myself, on the topic of molecular nanotechnology, also known as atomically precise manufacturing (APM). At...
Dear friends, This month we are announcing a new paper, “A Model for the Impacts of Nuclear War”, co-authored by Tony Barrett and myself. The paper presents a detailed and comprehensive accounting of the many ways that nuclear war can harm human beings and human...
