2023 was a year of learning and transition for GCRI, and likewise a relatively quiet year for us. A year ago, we lost two team members, McKenna Fitzgerald and Andrea Owe, leaving the GCRI team with just its two co-founders, Seth Baum and Tony Barrett. We certainly miss the excellent contributions of our former team members. Nonetheless, in our newly streamlined situation, we have taken the opportunity to reinvest in ourselves and recalibrate the direction of our activities.

In our 2022 Annual Report, we described our …

View the paper “Public Health and Nuclear Winter: Addressing a Catastrophic Threat”

A large nuclear war may cause severe global environmental disruption, which is commonly known as nuclear winter. The effects may be catastrophic for human health. The field of public health has substantial capacity to understand and mitigate these harms, but it has thus far done little. Therefore, this paper outlines a public health research and policy agenda to address the threat of nuclear winter. The paper is co-authored by Seth Baum of GCRI and …

In May, GCRI put out an open call for people interested in seeking our advice or collaborating on projects with us. This was a continuation of our successful 2019, 2020, and 2021 Advising and Collaboration Programs. The 2022 Program was made possible by continued support from Gordon Irlam.

The GCRI Advising and Collaboration Program is an opportunity for anyone interested in global catastrophic risk to get more involved in the field. There is practically no barrier to entry in the program: the only thing people need …

In a new post on the Effective Altruism Forum, GCRI’s Seth Baum and Jonas Schuett from the Legal Priorities Project make The case for long-term corporate governance of AI. Baum and Schuett make three main points in their post. First, the long-term corporate governance of AI, which they define as the corporate governance of AI that could affect the long-term future, is an important area of long-term AI governance. Second, corporate governance of AI has been relatively neglected by communities that focus on long-term AI …

GCRI has updated our conferences directory in several ways.  First, for past conferences, we added links to conference papers, output documents, conference videos, and so forth, as available. The idea is to make the conferences directory not only a resource for finding future events, but also a library of information from GCR conferences from around the world. Conferences provide some of the most recent and relevant GCR information from expert sources, so making their contents easily available is important. Second, we updated past conferences to …