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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"existential risk"”.
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Existential Risk and the Technological Understanding of Being
‘Existential risk research’ or ‘existential risk studies’ is an emerging, interdisciplinary genre that seeks to provide an integrative, scientific framework for the study of existential dangers to humanity. Having been introduced by Oxford Philosopher Nick Bostrom in the early 2000s, existential …
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Artificial Intelligence in 2024: A Thematic Analysis of Media Coverage
… and Technological Advancements and Future Risks. Across coverage, fear narratives centered on disinformation, job displacement, algorithmic bias, environmental costs, and existential risk. Results suggest that U.S. legacy media have moved beyond early techno-optimism towards a more nuanced …
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… appeals to epistemic integrity, AI safety, and existential risk in authorization of extrapolitical information controls. Finally, part three traces this intensification of COIN through an analysis of the complementary regulations, technical countermeasures and epistemic interventions …
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Essays in Monetary Policy and Growth
… misaligned with human values could create an existential risk for humanity. We show that under standard asset pricing theory, either possibility -- aligned AI accelerating growth or unaligned AI risking extinction -- would predict a large increase in real interest rates, due to consumption …
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Reframing global warming for better risk management: climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse
… change poses an unprecedented challenge and existential risk but, unlike natural climate change, it is a threat that contemporary society can prevent if we so choose. Despite consensus amongst climate scientists, concern across society and knowledge of solutions, anthropogenic emissions …