The most effective charities are hundreds of times more effective than typical charities, yet
few donors prioritize effectiveness. Why is that? How might we increase the effectiveness of …

In a contemporary landscape fraught with unprecedented challenges, it is imperative to
forge strategies that transcend present concerns and equally prioritize future generations …

Most people hold that it is wrong to sacrifice some humans to save a greater number of
humans. Do people also think that it is wrong to sacrifice some animals to save a greater …

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the
ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on" existential risks." Many leading …

Studying potential global catastrophes is vital. The high stakes of existential risk studies
(ERS) necessitate serious scrutiny and self-reflection. We argue that existing approaches to …

Rapid technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the growing
deployment of intelligent technologies in new application domains, have generated serious …

The world faces many large-scale risks. We describe these global catastrophic and
existential risks and identify some challenges in governing the prevention and mitigation of …

The possibility of social and technological collapse has been the focus of science fiction
tropes for decades, but more recent focus has been on specific sources of existential and …

While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented an immediate risk to human life around the
world, climate change poses an arguably greater—although less immediate—threat to our …

It should hardly be surprising that military technologies have featured prominently in public
discussions of global catastrophic risk (GCR). 1 The prospect of uncontrolled global war …