global catastrophic risk

His career has focused on the prevention of global catastrophic risk from emerging technology.

At the same time, nanotechnology may be used to alleviate several other global catastrophic risks.

While a global catastrophic risk may kill the vast majority of life on earth, humanity could still potentially recover.

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is literature which involves global catastrophic risk.

Biotechnology can pose a global catastrophic risk in the form of natural pathogens or novel, engineered ones.

The far future, including global catastrophic risks.

A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event with the potential to seriously damage human well-being on a global scale.

Some economists have discussed the importance of global catastrophic risks, though not existential risks.

To counteract the severe food security issues caused by global catastrophic risks, years of food storage has been proposed.

Potential global catastrophic risks include but are not limited to hostile artificial intelligence, nanotechnology weapons, climate change, nuclear warfare, and pandemics.

The largest topic FHI has spent time exploring is global catastrophic risk, and in particular existential risk.

Global catastrophic risk (existential risk)

GCRI education aims to raise awareness and understanding about global catastrophic risk among students, professionals, and most of all by the general public.

In Global Catastrophic Risks, Oxford University Press, 2008.

The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (est. 2011) is a think tank for all things catastrophic risk.

Among the global catastrophic risks to be studied by CSER are those stemming from possible future advances in artificial intelligence.

He considers risks that are at least "global" in scope and "endurable" in intensity to be global catastrophic risks.

Stanford University also has the Center for International Security and Cooperation focusing on political cooperation to reduce global catastrophic risk.

Bill Gates praised the book for critiquing opposition to international aid, but criticised the book for under-representing Global catastrophic risks.

The only one that appears to pose a significant global catastrophic risk is molecular manufacturing, a technique that would make it possible to build complex structures at atomic precision.

Between 2008 and 2010, FHI hosted the Global Catastrophic Risks conference, wrote 22 academic journal articles, and published 34 chapters in academic volumes.

Global Catastrophic Risks (2011) is a non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and astronomer Milan M. Ćirković.

Bostrom and Milan Ćirković's 2008 book Global Catastrophic Risks collects essays on a variety of such risks, both natural and anthropogenic.

Unbridled progress in computer technology may lead to the technological singularity, a global catastrophic risk in that it may result in synthetic intelligence that may bring about human extinction.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.