View in City Limits New York City is one of the most energy-efficient places in the United States, thanks to its high population density and excellent (by US standards) transit. However, it is also one of the most expensive places, thanks to its extremely high cost of...
Dear friends, This year has been an important year for global catastrophic risk. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, a multitude of extreme weather events, the release of new AI systems, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have either threatened global catastrophe or...
Our work in 2022 has taken an unexpected turn. We began the year focused on a series of research projects. Then, in late February, Russia invaded Ukraine, creating a historic nuclear crisis. This began a series of events that put global catastrophic risk into the...
GCRI is pleased to announce the 2022 Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program aims to highlight exceptional collaborators GCRI had the opportunity to partner with over the course of the year. This year, we have four 2022 Fellows. The 2022 GCRI Fellows include...
The field of global catastrophic risk has been jolted by the recent collapse of the cryptocurrency company FTX. Its philanthropic arm, the FTX Future Fund, was, for a brief stretch of time, a major funder of work on global catastrophic risk and related topics. Some...
