Unprecedented Technological Risks
Over the next few decades, the continued development of dual-use technologies will provide major benefits to society. They will also pose significant and unprecedented global risks, including risks of...
View ArticleResearch note: Good policy ideas that won’t happen (yet)
Niel Bowerman Over the last year the Centre for Effective Altruism has had over a dozen meetings with UK policymakers and tested the waters on a range of policies we thought might have significant...
View ArticleResearch note: Requiring liability insurance for dual-use research
Owen Cotton-Barratt These are notes on a policy proposal aimed at reducing catastrophic risk. They cover some of the advantages and disadvantages of the idea at a general level; they do not yet...
View ArticleDiscounting for uncertainty in health
Abstract: Discounting has an important role to play when choosing between different health interventions whose costs and benefits are spread over time. There are several reasons we discount, such as...
View ArticleNew UK aid strategy – prioritising research and crisis response
On the 23rd, DFID announced their new strategy for the next 5 years. This included at least £2.5bn in extra funding for research into high priority areas – like new treatments for neglected tropical...
View ArticleWorkshop: Existential Risk – Diplomacy and Governance
On February 8th and 9th around twenty leading academics and policy-makers from the UK, USA, Germany, Finland, and Sweden gathered at our workshop in Oxford to discuss governance in existential risks....
View ArticleGlobal Catastrophic Risks 2016
Global catastrophes sometimes strike. In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed as many as one in twenty people. There have been even more devastating pandemics - the Black Death and the 6th century Plague of...
View ArticleMore Must Be Done to Guard Against Global Catastrophic Risks
Crossposted from Huffington Post Sebastian Farquhar Global catastrophes sometimes strike. In 1918 the Spanish Flu killed as many as one in twenty people. There have been even more devastating pandemics...
View ArticleExistential Risk – Diplomacy and Governance
Today, we launched our latest report at the Embassy of Finland in London. It lays out three concrete recommendations for the international community to mitigate existential risk. The executive summary...
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