Copyright
SJ Beard; Tom Hobson. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).Published On
2024-09-03ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-114-6
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Language
- English
Print Length
716 pages (viii+708)Dimensions
Paperback156 x 50 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.97" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 53 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2.09" x 9.21")
Weight
Paperback1338g (47.20oz)
Hardback1530g (53.97oz)
Media
Illustrations82
Tables29
OCLC Number
1454830358LCCN
2021388898THEMA
- JHB
- GTQ
- JPQB
- JBFF
BIC
- GPQD
- JFFS
- GTF
- JFF
BISAC
- SOC026000
- POL033000
- POL028000
- SOC040000
LCC
- HV549
Keywords
- Existential Risk Studies key texts
- Global Risk
- Global risk reduction
- Human extinction
- Civilization collapse
- Safeguard humanity
An Anthology of Global Risk
This book is part of a 2-volume set. The other volume in the set is:
This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to original research and insights in this rapidly evolving field. At its heart, this book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope.
The volume curates a series of research articles, including previously published and unpublished work, exploring the nature and ethics of catastrophic global risk, the tools and methodologies being developed to study it, the diverse drivers that are currently pushing it to unprecedented levels of danger, and the pathways and opportunities for reducing this. In each case, they go beyond simplistic and reductionist accounts of risk to understand how a diverse range of factors interact to shape both catastrophic threats and our vulnerability and exposure to them and reflect on different stakeholder communities, policy mechanisms, and theories of change that can help to mitigate and manage this risk. Bringing together experts from across diverse disciplines, the anthology provides an accessible survey of the current state of the art in this emerging field.
The interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary nature of the cutting-edge research presented here makes this volume a key resource for researchers and academics. However, the editors have also prepared introductions and research highlights that will make it accessible to an interested general audience as well. Whatever their level of experience, the volume aims to challenge readers to take on board the extent of the multiple dangers currently faced by humanity, and to think critically and proactively about reducing global risk.
Additional Resources
[document]Appendix to Chapter 6, *An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards *(CC BY-NC 4.0)
[document]Appendix to Chapter 11, *Enabling the Participatory Exploration of Alternative Futures*(CC BY-NC 4.0)
[article]Appendix to Chapter 13, *Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming*(CC BY-NC 4.0)
[article]Appendix to Chapter 17, *Artificial Canaries: Early Warning Signs for Anticipatory and Democratic Governance of AI*(CC BY-NC 4.0)
[article]Appendix to Chapter 19, *The Cartography of Global Catastrophic Governance*(CC BY-NC 4.0)
Contents
Introduction
(pp. 1–12)- SJ Beard
- Tom Hobson
- SJ Beard
- Émile Torres
- Zoe Cremer
- Luke Kemp
3. Classifying Global Catastrophic Risk
(pp. 125–140)- Shahar Avin
- Bonnie C. Wintle
- Julius Weitzdörfer
- Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh
- William J. Sutherland
- Martin Rees
4. Governing Boring Apocalypses: A New Typology of Existential Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Existential Risk Research
(pp. 141–176)- Hin-Yan Liu
- Kristian Cedervall Lauta
- Matthijs Maas
5. Existential Risk, Creativity and Well-Adapted Science
(pp. 177–210)- Adrian Currie
6. An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards
(pp. 221–258)- SJ Beard
- Thomas Rowe
- James Fox
7. Scanning Horizons in Research, Policy and Practice
(pp. 259–284)- Bonnie C. Wintle
- Mahlo N. C. Kennicutt
- William J. Sutherland
8. Exploring Artificial Intelligence Futures
(pp. 285–306)- Shahar Avin
- Gorm Shackleford
- Luke Kemp
- Catherine Rhodes
- Lalitha Sundaram
- Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh
- SJ Beard
- Haydn Belfield
- Julius Weitzdörfer
- Shahar Avin
- Dag Sørebø
- Elliot M. Jones
- John B. Hume
- David Price
- David Pyle
- Daniel Hurt
- Theodore Stone
- Harry Watkins
- Lydia Collas
- Bryony C. Cade
- Thomas Frederick Johnson
- Zachary Freitas-Grof
- David Denkenberger
- Michael Levot
- William J. Sutherland
10. The Mortality of States (MOROS) Dataset
(pp. 329–336)- Luke Kemp
- Rick Davies
- SJ Beard
- Tom Hobson
- Lara Mani
- Lara Mani
- Azaf Tzachor
- Paul Cole
13. Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming: An Empirical Causal Loop Diagram of Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Societal Collapse
(pp. 371–400)- Catherine Richards
- Richard Lupton
- Julian Allwood
- SJ Beard
- Luke Kemp
15. A Fate Worse Than Warming? : Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Catastrophic Risk
(pp. 409–450)- Aaron Tang
- Luke Kemp
16. Bioengineering Horizon Scan 2020
(pp. 451–484)- Luke Kemp
- Laura Adam
- Christian R Boehm
- Rainer Breitling
- Rocco Casagrande
- Malcolm Dando
- Appolinaire Djikeng
- Nicholas G Evans
- Richard Hammond
- Kelly Hills
- Lauren A Holt
- Todd Kuiken
- Alemka Markotić
- Piers Millett
- Jonathan A Napier
- Cassidy Nelson
- Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh
- Anne Osbourn
- Megan J Palmer
- Nicola J Patron
- Edward Perello
- Wibool Piyawattanametha
- Vanessa Restrepo-Schild
- Clarissa Rios Rojas
- Catherine Rhodes
- Anna Roessing
- Deborah Scott
- Philip Shapira
- Christopher Simuntala
- Robert D J Smith
- Lalitha Sundaram
- Eriko Takano
- Gwynn Uttmark
- Bonnie C. Wintle
- Nadia B Zahra
- William J. Sutherland
17. Artificial Canaries: Early Warning Signs for Anticipatory and Democratic Governance of AI
(pp. 485–512)- Zoe Cremer
- Jess Whittlestone
18. Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in Global Risk
(pp. 521–530)- Clarissa Rios Rojas
- Catherine Richards
- Catherine Rhodes
- Paul Ingram
19. The Cartography of Global Catastrophic Governance
(pp. 531–586)- Catherine Rhodes
- Luke Kemp
- Paul Ingram
21. It Takes a Village: The Shared Responsibility of “Raising” an Autonomous Weapon
(pp. 603–612)- Amritha Jayanthi
- Shahar Avin
- Natalie Jones
- Mark O’Brien
- Thomas Ryan
23. Financing Our Final Hour
(pp. 641–694)- Luke Kemp
- Haydn Belfield
- Ellen Quigley
- Julius Weitzdörfer
- SJ Beard
Contributors
SJ Beard
(editor)Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
SJ Beard is a Senior Research Associate and Academic Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, an Associated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. SJ Beard works on the Evaluation of Extreme Technological Risks, and other ethical problems with ensuring a long term future for humanity. They also have a wide range of skills and experiences producing high quality research, training and analysis across education and public affairs.
Tom Hobson
(editor)Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Tom Hobson’s work is focused on understanding and mapping the militarisation of emerging technologies, particularly biological technologies. His research, more broadly, is concerned with understanding how scientific and expert communities and military and policy actors imagine the future, the ways that existing technologies shape their visions of the future, and how they endeavour to secure a particular vision of the future through technology and innovation. Tom’s work aims to guide norms and policy in the present by developing a better understanding of how future (extreme) technological risk can be (re)produced through innovation and technology. Tom has a background in International Relations, Security Studies and STS, having completed his PhD within the Centre for War & Technology at the University of Bath. He has also worked in policy, research and project assessment in the fields of biosecurity and synthetic biology.