Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction
At a time when US political thinking is obsessed with maps of reds and blues, it’s nice to take a step back and think about the longer term potential of coun...
I’ve been experimenting with various ways of talking about my global risk research. Podcasts were next on my list. 📻🎙
In these two Salons, I discuss contact tracing and privacy with my fellow panelists. There are real tradeoffs between privacy and disease survelliance, but n...
This report was part of an effort to provide a technology overview and policy recommendations on COVID-19 diagnostics for policy makers in the midst of the C...
I was recently the (unsuccessful) target of a very well-crafted phishing scam. As part of a housing search a few weeks ago, I was trawling craigslist and zil...
Originally written on Medium Nick Bostrom, of the Future of Humanity Institute, uses an evocative metaphor to describe the future of humanity’s technologi...
One of my friends on Twitter, Venkatesh Rao, recently challenged people to write one hundred tweets on one topic. I took the bait, and wrote one hundred op...
Originally written on Medium Smoke chokes the city, the nearby forests are on fire, and towns are burning down as I sit here writing this. It is the fall ...
This is an excerpt from the Foresight 2019 AGI Cooperation Report. At the workshop, I led a session on the impact of AI on nuclear escalation paths. Here I s...