We at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute were appalled and disgusted to watch as right-wing domestic violent extremists stormed the US Capitol on January 6 to threaten Congress and disrupt certification of the Electoral College vote [1]. Though shocking in …
GCRI Statement on the January 6 US Capitol Insurrection More >
January 14, 2021 On January 6, thousands gathered in Washington, DC to hear an inciteful speech from President Trump, then forcefully breached the US Capitol Building in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transition of presidential power—an institutional foundation of …
January 11, 2021 We’ve heard plenty about the GOP members of Congress and Trump political appointees who have “enabled” Donald Trump over these four years, failing to act to stem his excesses. But what about the billionaire donors to Trump’s …
View the paper “2020 Survey of Artificial General Intelligence Projects for Ethics, Risk, and Policy” In 2017, GCRI published the first-ever survey of artificial general intelligence (AGI) research and development (R&D) projects for ethics, risk, and policy. This paper updates …
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MIRI COO Malo Bourgon reviews our past year and discusses our future plans in 2020 Updates and Strategy Our biggest update is that we’ve made less concrete progress than we expected on the new research we described in 2018 Update: …
MIRI’s 2020 has been a year of experimentation and adjustment. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we largely moved our operations to more rural areas in March, and shifted to a greater emphasis on remote work. We took the opportunity …
December 18, 2020 Virtually everyone agrees that 2020 was an abomination. An entire industry of opinion writers is busying itself with end-of-year handwringing, scouring every online thesaurus for adjectives to express just how horrible the last twelve months have been. …
We will run the first Intro Seminar to Risks of Astronomical Suffering (s-risks). The seminar is intended to help you get up to speed with how we think about s-risks. It will take place on the weekend of February 20 …
MIRI researcher Scott Garrabrant has completed his Cartesian Frames sequence. Scott also covers the first two posts’ contents in video form. Other MIRI updates Contrary to my previous announcement, MIRI won’t be running a formal fundraiser this year, though we’ll still …
Dear friends, What a year 2020 has been. The COVID-19 pandemic is already the most severe global catastrophe in decades, and it’s far from over. It shows the importance of addressing global catastrophic risk: a global catastrophe can upend everything …
2020 has been a challenging year for GCRI, as it has been for so many other organizations. The pandemic we are currently living through is, by some definitions, a global catastrophe. COVID-19 has already killed more than a million people …
Summary of 2020-2021 GCRI Accomplishments, Plans, and Fundraising More >
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November 20, 2020 The US presidential election of 2020 is now behind us—or is it? President Trump has yet to concede his defeat, and many Republican lawmakers have demanded recounts and backed lawsuits. Some commentators fear that the current administration …
November 19, 2020 [Editor’s note: Last year Alberta Premier Jason Kenney established a $30-million-per-year, publicly funded “war room” to promote the oil and gas industry and slam those who don’t. Hired to run it was Tom Olsen, a veteran right-wing politico and …