Speakers Index
Global Catastrophic Risks Conference
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Programme
Lectures
A comprehensive list of all the speakers, along with their academic biographies, can be found on the right. Below are details of the lectures; a full programme can be found here.
Details of lectures at Conference by Subject (PDF)
Contexts
Humans: Past, Present and Future
Sir Crispin Tickell
Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction
Professor Robin Hanson
Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases
Dr James Hughes
The Tragedy of the Uncommons
Professor Jonathan Wiener
Rationally Considering the End of the World
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Insurance and Catastrophes
Dr Peter Taylor
Disasters, Ecological Diversity, and the Future of Humanity
Professor Christopher Wills
Culture and the Credibility of Catastrophe
Professor Steve Rayner
Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature
Dr Michelangelo Mangano
Hostile Acts
Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism: A Preventable Peril
William Potter and Gary Ackerman
The Continuing Threat of Nuclear War
Joseph Cirincione
Nature
Cosmic Threats
Professor Arnon Dar
Hazards from Comets and Asteroids
William Napier
Cosmic Impacts: The Most Extreme Global Catastrophes
David Morrison
Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe
Professor Fred Adams
Social, Scientific and Medical Lessons from the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
John Oxford
Biotechnology and Biosecurity: Preventing Risks While Preserving Benefits
Ali Nouri
Unintended Consequences
Small Machines, Big Choices: The Looming Impacts of Molecular Manufacturing
Mike Treder and Chris Phoenix
(Artificial) Intelligence: The Wild Card
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Probing the Improbable. Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes
Rafaela Hillerbrand, Toby Order and Anders Sandberg
Climate Change, Catastrophe and Uncertainty
Dr Dave Frame