Research Database

Global Shield maintains a database of academic articles and reports relating to global catastrophic risk. Search this database below.

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Title

Author(s)

Year

Source

The Next Space Race

Collapse, Unraveling, or Great Simplification?

Global history, the emergence of chaos and inducing sustainability in networks of socio-ecological systems

The Politics of Deep Time

Disarming arguments: Public opinion and nuclear abolition

Artificial Intelligence for Space Weather Forecasting

Catastrophes of the 21st Century

All-hazards

Extinction risks and resilience: A perspective on existential risks research with nuclear war as an exemplary threat

Weapons

Taking control: Policies to address extinction risks from advanced AI

Technology

Current cases of AI misalignment and their implications for future risks

Technology

Diplomatic, geopolitical and economic consequences of an impending asteroid threat

Natural and cosmic

Planetary defense governance: Thirty years of development and the multilateral future

Natural and cosmic

Transformative AI, existential risk, and asset pricing

Technology

Administrative X-Risk: Pinpointing the Flaws of an AI Regulatory Scheme Reliant on Administrative Action

Technology

A Review of the Evidence for Existential Risk from AI via Misaligned Power-Seeking

Technology

Economic growth under transformative AI

Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Wellbeing

All-hazards

The Future is Never Written: Fighting Like Hell for Abundant Futures

Existential Risk, Climate Change and Nonideal Justice

All-hazards

AI and National Security: The United States Risks Losing Its Competitive Edge

Pentagon Plans Mass Autonomous Weapons Deployment

Asteroid 2023 NT1: A Cautionary Tale

Global Governance in Crisis? Conclusions from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Towards Artificial General Intelligence-A Survey of Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures with Quantum Computing for Multivariate …

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence.

An overview of research on human-centered design in the development of artificial general intelligence

Catastrophic jailbreak of open-source LLMs via exploiting generation

The Case for Longtermism: Concern for the far future as a catalyst for pro-climate action

Environment

The Future Beauty: Artificial General Intelligence Driven Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing in Medical Aesthetics

Bridging the Gap between Purpose-Driven Frameworks and Artificial General Intelligence

Climate Change and the Future of Catastrophe Insurance Programs

Artificial General Intelligence, Existential Risk, and Human Risk Perception

Technology

Transformation vs Tradition: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Arts and Humanities

Drawing blanks and winning: Quantifying global catastrophic risk associated with human ingenuity

All-hazards

Artificial General Intelligence: Roadmap To Achieving Human-Level Capabilities

Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs

How important is the end of humanity? Lay people prioritize extinction prevention but not above all other societal issues

All-hazards

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Research Database

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Title

Author(s)

Year

Source

The Next Space Race

Collapse, Unraveling, or Great Simplification?

Global history, the emergence of chaos and inducing sustainability in networks of socio-ecological systems

The Politics of Deep Time

Disarming arguments: Public opinion and nuclear abolition

Artificial Intelligence for Space Weather Forecasting

Catastrophes of the 21st Century

Extinction risks and resilience: A perspective on existential risks research with nuclear war as an exemplary threat

Taking control: Policies to address extinction risks from advanced AI

Current cases of AI misalignment and their implications for future risks

Diplomatic, geopolitical and economic consequences of an impending asteroid threat

Planetary defense governance: Thirty years of development and the multilateral future

Transformative AI, existential risk, and asset pricing

Administrative X-Risk: Pinpointing the Flaws of an AI Regulatory Scheme Reliant on Administrative Action

A Review of the Evidence for Existential Risk from AI via Misaligned Power-Seeking

Economic growth under transformative AI

Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure Time Preference for Wellbeing

The Future is Never Written: Fighting Like Hell for Abundant Futures

Existential Risk, Climate Change and Nonideal Justice

AI and National Security: The United States Risks Losing Its Competitive Edge

Pentagon Plans Mass Autonomous Weapons Deployment

Asteroid 2023 NT1: A Cautionary Tale

Global Governance in Crisis? Conclusions from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Towards Artificial General Intelligence-A Survey of Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures with Quantum Computing for Multivariate …

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence.

An overview of research on human-centered design in the development of artificial general intelligence

Catastrophic jailbreak of open-source LLMs via exploiting generation

The Case for Longtermism: Concern for the far future as a catalyst for pro-climate action

The Future Beauty: Artificial General Intelligence Driven Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing in Medical Aesthetics

Bridging the Gap between Purpose-Driven Frameworks and Artificial General Intelligence

Climate Change and the Future of Catastrophe Insurance Programs

Artificial General Intelligence, Existential Risk, and Human Risk Perception

Transformation vs Tradition: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Arts and Humanities

Drawing blanks and winning: Quantifying global catastrophic risk associated with human ingenuity

Artificial General Intelligence: Roadmap To Achieving Human-Level Capabilities

Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs

How important is the end of humanity? Lay people prioritize extinction prevention but not above all other societal issues

Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics

The End and Hope of Mankind

The Last of Us’: How Likely Is a Fungal Apocalypse?

Unpacking The “Existential” Climate Crisis With Bill McKibben

Health Experts Urge Nuclear Risk Reduction

The Looming Nuclear War

Pandemics and Insurance

An AI Leader Urges Regulation and a Rethink.

Biotechnology: A panacea to climate change disasters-Brief review

An AI Reality Check.

AI and the Future of Drone Warfare: Risks and Recommendations

US Nuclear Weapons

13 Individual Climate Risks at the Bounds of

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