Organizations, sites and people involved in x-risks prevention
Global Impact Nano Size and level of AI risks General x-risks Nuclear Bio-risks influence warming risks risks
FHI Future of humanity institute Bulletin of IPCC World Health NASA Foresight Known MIRI FLI Club of Rome Organization link (Former Singularity Future of life institute Oxford, link Still exist! Atomic International (WHO) institute very well institute) Elon Musk Nick Bostrom Were famous in 1970s when they pro- panel of climate and large Scientists change includes a division called the Global link E.Yudkowsky link list of researchers duced “Limits of growth” Link Alert and Response (GAR) which mon- Famous doomsday itors and responds to global epidemic amount of work link crisis. GAR helps member states with clock training and coordination of response to is done epidemics. link link OpenAI Oxford Martin CSER EA B612 Elon Musk Programme Cambridge center of existential risks The United States Effective altruism on the Impacts of Future wiki Martin Rees, link The Forum Agency for Interna- Foundation Open Philanthropy Technology, link for Climate tional Development project (USAID) 80’000 hours Nuclear Engineering has its Emerging Pandemic Threats Program which aims to prevent and threat Initia- Assessment contain naturally generated pandemics Got grant from OFP at their source.[129] Global Priorities X-risks GCRI Foundational Skoll Global CISAC tive link Large and Global catastrophic risks Project institute institute, Research Threats Fund “The Center for Internation- interest- Phil Torrres Seth Baum al Security and Cooperation is Created Global catastrophic risk re- Institute “To safeguard humanity from Stanford University’s hub for re- port-2016 Interesting articles by its Interesting newsletter, many “Currently, our research focus- global threats” searchers tackling some of the Arctic news The Lawrence ing Collaborate with UK government main author, focus on exis- articles in scientific journals es on reducing risks of dysto- Climate, water security, pandem- world’s most pressing securi- Stimson Livermore National Holocene Dr. Toby Ord is member tential terrorism and religion pian futures in the context of ics, nuclear proliferation, link Sam Carana link ty and international cooperation Irreversible global warming “Global Priorities Project has link emerging technologies”. problems” Laboratory Impact Working research Center because of methane hydrates has a division called the Global Secu- merged into Centre for Effective Al- Interesting work on AI safety Nuclear, cybersecurity, bio, anti- “The Stimson Center is a eruption rity Principal Directorate which re- Group has been cre- truism (see here). We are continu- searches on behalf of the government link terrorism, link nonpartisan policy research link Estimate risks of recent ing to do research on questions re- issues such as bio-security, counter-ter- ated, but not center working to solve the rorism, etc. Link impacts lated to existential risk, though we world’s greatest threats to link much people are not currently planning to write security and prosperity”. knows them new reports on the topic like the non-prolifiration report mentioned above.” X-risks Leverage Convergence Lifeboat Saving link link Net Research Justin Shovelain Foundation Humanity Alexei Turchin Collective think tank concentrat- Very large scientific boards which Creating full database on the site is almost empty now ed on mathematical modeling of don’t actually do anything, but from Homo Sapiens Small one person organisation flutrackers.com x-risks and prevention plan link x-risks some useful discussion is going Forum about risks of flu pandemic without any actual work link in its mail list link link site Ploughshares UC Berkeley — Center mail list - good one Fund for Human- “Supports the smartest minds and most effective or- Compatible AI ganizations to reduce nucle- link ar stockpiles, prevent new Leverhulme Centre for Global nuclear states, and increase iGEM — Synthet- the Future of Intelli- global security” ic Biology Safety challenges Link gence Laszlo Szombatfalvy and Security The Global Challenges Foundation works to AI Safety raise awareness of the Global Catastroph- Aarhus ic Risks. Primarily focused on climate change, Denmark other environmental degradation and politi- cally motivated violence as well as how these Diffusing Nuclear link threats are linked to poverty and rapid popu- Threat Blue Ribbon lation growth, link link Study Panel on Biodefense
Jaan Tallinn Bill Gates Investors Elon Musk Sam Altman Bill Joy Peter Thiel Want AI safety through Open Y combinator, Wrote famous arti- and important investor in Has its own foun- DEFCON warning AI and human on Mars as a Confounded cle but now seems to Invested figures x-related dation and vision system backup plan Open AI lost interest in MIRI projects, wiki of global risks
Public Zoltvan Stephen Istavn figures Hawking Warned about risks of Presidential candidate aliens and AI from transhumanist party Wrote about x-risks
Writers Vernor Vinge Greg Egan David Brin John Barnes writer writer, “Mother of writer, created “Permutation Lewis Dartnell Singularity idea city” “Existence” storms” author of “Knowledge”
A. Sandberg Adrian Toby Ord Robin Katja Grace Willard Wells R. Freitas Dennis Scientists Kent Hanson Meadows Participated in site Fermi paradox Author of “Apoc- Nanotech risks and re- Resource depletion risks FHI and co-au- LHC risks “existential Blog and DA alypses when” searchers thored papers hope” Societal collapse blog and prevention risks AI impacts plan
David Alexander Nick Milan Ćirković Bruce Tonn Large group of people working Denkenberger Kononov Beackstead agricultural risks Stevenson probe, Editor and writer on AI safety, Coined term FHI, work on a problem Anthropic shadow link including, but not limited to: ”indestructibility of of refuges against x-risks Fermi paradox Steve Omohundro civilization” Site Luke Muehlhauser Stuart Armstrong Roman Yampolskiy Nate Soares R.Carrigan Max Tegmark Norwegian Vladimir Nesov Aaron Dar Bill Napier Wrote articles together transhumanists Kaj Sotala with Bostrom Adrian Rohreim Benja Fallenstein Risks of SETI Risks of Risks of dark Riva Melissa Tez supernovas comets Jason Gaverick Matheny, wiki Andrew Critch, blog Paul Christiano Carl Shulman Anna Salamon
Open Less- Facebook X-risks Longecity Wiki- EA forum Intelligent Discussion in • Existential risks (Adam Ford) agents forum places for wrong • Global Catastrophic Risks Re- on subforum resources link Technical discussion comments search and Discussion (Evan IEET discussion Gaensbauer) Reddit on AI safety • Global catastrophic risks link LW-wiki link Futureoflife • Stop existential risks Hplus pedia Existentialrisk Control problem