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urn:uuid:c0ac83bf-018f-4175-8a47-071189ea022e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c0ac83bf-018f-4175-8a47-071189ea022e 15 9781805111160 06 10.11647/OBP.0360 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 An Anthology of Global Risk 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2834-0993 SJ Beard 2 B01 21 0000-0002-1244-3787 Tom Hobson 01 eng 00 716 03 20 Existential Risk Studies key texts 12 GPQD 04 HV549 93 JHB B2 Politics and Sociology 10 SOC026000 B2 Environmental Studies 20 Global Risk 93 GTQ 12 JFFS 10 POL033000 20 Global risk reduction 12 GTF 93 JPQB 10 POL028000 20 Human extinction 93 JBFF 12 JFF 10 SOC040000 20 Civilization collapse 20 Safeguard humanity 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existential security and hope.The volume curates a series of research articles, including previously published and unpublished work, exploring the nature and ethics of catastrophic global risk, the tools and methodologies being developed to study it, the diverse drivers that are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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240903 13 15 9781805111153 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0360 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0360.pdf 99 01