Existential Risks: An OverviewFuture Day 2014

Patrick Robotham

March 1, 2014

Should we care about the future?

I Creditors care

I Politicians and businesses don’t

I Dynamic Inconsistency

I Future is uncertain

The case for reducing existential risk

The case for reducing existential risk

Existential risks kill most smiley faces!

Existential risk vs global catastrophic risk

Humanity can recover from catastrophe

Nuclear War

Existential Risk Orgs

I Lifeboat Foundation

I Future of Humanity Institute

I World Economic Forum

I International Risk Governance Council

I Center for the Study of Existential Risk

Further Reading

Bostrom, Nick, and Milan M. Cirkovic, eds. Global catastrophicrisks. Oxford University Press, 2011.Bostrom, Nick. ”Existential risks.” Journal of Evolution andTechnology 9 (2002).World Economic Forum. ”Global Risk Report 2014”