Download Preprint PDF Certain major global catastrophes could cause permanent harm to humanity. A large body of scholarship makes a moral argument for confronting the threat of these catastrophes based on a concern for far future generations. The far future can be...
Download Preprint PDF Nuclear weapons explosions send large quantities of smoke high into the atmosphere. The smoke blocks incoming sunlight and destroys ozone, causing major environmental harms worldwide, including cold temperatures, reduced precipitation, and...
Download Preprint PDF The long-term success of human civilization is of immense importance because of the huge number of lives at stake, in particular the lives of countless future generations. A catastrophe that causes permanent harm to human civilization would be a...
Download Preprint PDF This short paper is an introduction to Confronting Future Catastrophic Threats to Humanity, a special issue of the journal Futures covering solutions for addressing global catastrophic risk. It begins as follows: Humanity faces a range of threats...
Dear friends, I’m delighted to announce three new funded projects. Two of them are for risk modeling, on artificial intelligence and nuclear war. These follow directly from our established nuclear war and emerging technologies research projects. The third is for...
