GCRI is in the process of several general organization updates. The first is a new collection of topics pages published on our website. They cover the major topics that GCRI currently works on. These replace our previous collection of projects pages, which had fallen out of date. The new topics pages briefly summarize the topic itself and GCRI’s work on it, and then list GCRI’s publications on the topic.

The topics are as follows:

Aftermath of Global Catastrophe. How well would survivors of global catastrophe fare? This perhaps the largest and most important point of uncertainty in the study of global catastrophic risk.

Artificial Intelligence. AI is an important emerging issue. It demands an interdisciplinary study including computer science as well as the social science of how AI is built and used.

Cross-Risk Evaluation & Prioritization. Some decisions require comparison of multiple global catastrophic risks, including decisions about actions that could decrease one risk and increase another, and decisions of how to allocate scarce resources across different risks.

Nanotechnology. Future nanotechnology could have a transformative impact on society, including several global catastrophic risks, but it has gone almost entirely neglected in recent years.

Nuclear War. The study of nuclear war has a long history, but basic questions concerning the risk and how to reduce the risk have not been well characterized.

Risk & Decision Analysis. The probability and severity of global catastrophe are not easy to quantify, but rigorous risk and decision analysis techniques can nonetheless be valuable for informing risk reduction decisions.

Solutions & Strategy. Efforts to reduce the risk of global catastrophe should go beyond theoretical scholarship to take into account the real-world context in which risk-reduction solutions would be implemented.