Summary of January-July 2020 Advising and Collaboration Program

Post Date July 30, 2020
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In January, GCRI put out an open call for people interested in seeking our advice or collaborating on projects with us. This was a continuation of last year’s successful advising and collaboration program. We anticipate conducting a second round of the program later in 2020. The 2020 programs are made possible by generous support from Gordon Irlam.

This first 2020 program focused on a number of AI projects that are also supported by Irlam. Program participants were mostly people interested in AI risk, ethics, and policy. …

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2019 Annual Report

Post Date November 26, 2019
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2019 has been a year of growth for GCRI. We have made good progress toward our goal, announced last year, of scaling up the organization so we can do more to reduce global catastrophic risk. We have also completed work on ongoing global catastrophic risk projects. We are especially happy with the advising and collaboration program we ran this year, through which we helped many people advance their work on global catastrophic risk while demonstrating how GCRI can operate at a larger scale.

Last year, we …

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2018 Annual Report

Post Date December 12, 2018
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GCRI may now be at a turning point. We have established ourselves as leaders of the field of global catastrophic risk, with an important and distinctive role centered on the development of intelligent and practical solutions to reduce the risks. We have built up a solid track record of accomplishments of basic research and outreach to translate research ideas into action. However, we are not accomplishing nearly as much as we could because we currently only have the resources to operate at a small scale. …

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GCRI 2018 Accomplishments

Post Date November 29, 2018
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2018 has been a productive year for GCRI across a range of areas: research, outreach, mentoring, and organization development. Or rather, it has been productive relative to our current rate of funding. As discussed below, we could do a lot more if funds were available, and much of our current work is on raising those funds and ensuring that they are put to the best use. GCRI has an important and distinctive role to play on global catastrophic risk and we believe that the risks …

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The Role of Risk and Decision Analysis in Global Catastrophic Risk Reduction

Post Date November 26, 2018
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This post provides some general discussion on how we at GCRI currently view risk and decision analysis. It has long been a major theme for our work, but it is somewhat controversial in our own minds. This post shares our current thinking in order to prompt wider discussion of these important but challenging research tools.

GCRI is a leader in the use of risk and decision analysis to understand global catastrophic risk. Risk analysis is the process of characterizing and perhaps quantifying the probabilities and severities …

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