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urn:uuid:c0ac83bf-018f-4175-8a47-071189ea022e 03 15 9781805111177 00 EB E101 10 01 01 An Anthology of Global Risk 1 B01 SJ Beard SJ Beard is a Senior Research Associate and Academic Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, an Associated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. SJ Beard works on the Evaluation of Extreme Technological Risks, and other ethical problems with ensuring a long term future for humanity. They also have a wide range of skills and experiences producing high quality research, training and analysis across education and public affairs. 2 B01 Tom Hobson Tom Hobson’s work is focused on understanding and mapping the militarisation of emerging technologies, particularly biological technologies. His research, more broadly, is concerned with understanding how scientific and expert communities and military and policy actors imagine the future, the ways that existing technologies shape their visions of the future, and how they endeavour to secure a particular vision of the future through technology and innovation. Tom’s work aims to guide norms and policy in the present by developing a better understanding of how future (extreme) technological risk can be (re)produced through innovation and technology. Tom has a background in International Relations, Security Studies and STS, having completed his PhD within the Centre for War & Technology at the University of Bath. He has also worked in policy, research and project assessment in the fields of biosecurity and synthetic biology. 01 eng 00 716 03 23 Existential Risk Studies key texts 12 GPQD 04 HV549 23 Politics and Sociology 10 SOC026000 23 Environmental Studies 23 Global Risk 12 JFFS 10 POL033000 23 Global risk reduction 12 GTF 10 POL028000 23 Human extinction 12 JFF 10 SOC040000 23 Civilization collapse 23 Safeguard humanity 01 06 03 00 This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to original research and insights in this rapidly evolving field. At its heart, this book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope.The volume curates a series of research articles, including previously published and unpublished work, exploring the nature and ethics of catastrophic global risk, the tools and methodologies being developed to study it, the diverse drivers that are currently pushing it to unprecedented levels of danger, and the pathways and opportunities for reducing this. In each case, they go beyond simplistic and reductionist accounts of risk to understand how a diverse range of factors interact to shape both catastrophic threats and our vulnerability and exposure to them and reflect on different stakeholder communities, policy mechanisms, and theories of change that can help to mitigate and manage this risk. Bringing together experts from across diverse disciplines, the anthology provides an accessible survey of the current state of the art in this emerging field.The interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary nature of the cutting-edge research presented here makes this volume a key resource for researchers and academics. However, the editors have also prepared introductions and research highlights that will make it accessible to an interested general audience as well. Whatever their level of experience, the volume aims to challenge readers to take on board the extent of the multiple dangers currently faced by humanity, and to think critically and proactively about reducing global risk. 04 00 Introduction I. HISTORY, CONCEPTS, AND NORMS 1. Ripples on the Great Sea of Life: A Brief History of Existential Risk Studies 2. Democratising Risk: In Search of a Methodology to Study Existential Risk 3. Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks 4. Governing Boring Apocalypses: A New Typology of Existential Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Existential Risk Research 5. Existential Risk, Creativity and Well-Adapted Science II. METHODS, TOOLS, AND APPROACHES 6. An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards 7. Scanning Horizons in Research, Policy and Practice 8. Exploring Artificial Intelligence Futures 9. Accumulating Evidence Using Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning: A Living Bibliography About Existential Risk and Global Catastrophic Risk 10. The Mortality of States (MOROS) Dataset 11. Enabling the Participatory Exploration of Alternative Futures With ParEvo III. RISK DRIVERS AND IMPACTS 12. Global Catastrophic Risk From Low Magnitude Volcanic Eruptions 13. Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming: An Empirical Causal Loop Diagram of Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Societal Collapse 14. Existential Change: Lesson from Climate Change for Existential Risk 15. A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Catastrophic Risk 16. Bioengineering Horizon Scan 2020 17. Artificial Canaries: Early Warning Signs for Anticipatory and Democratic Governance of AI IV. POLICY, INSTITUTIONS, AND IMPACTS 18. Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in Global Risk 19. The Cartography of Global Catastrophic Governance 20. The Stepping Stones Approach to Nuclear Disarmament Diplomacy 21. It Takes a Village: The Shared Responsibility of “Raising” an Autonomous Weapon 22. Representation of Future Generations in United Kingdom Policy-Making 23. Financing Our Final Hour Contributors Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240903 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805111146 06 15 9781805111153 06 15 9781805111160 06 15 9781805111207 06 15 9781805111177 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD