November Newsletter: A Year of Growth

Post Date November 26, 2019
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Dear friends,

2019 has been a year of growth for GCRI. One year ago, we described a turning point for the organization and announced our goal of scaling up to increase our impact on global catastrophic risk. Over the past year, we have made considerable progress toward this goal. We have expanded our team, published work in top journals such as Science and Risk Analysis, and hosted a tremendously successful advising and collaboration program in support of talented people around the world. All this and more …

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My Experience With The GCRI Advising/Collaboration Program: A Junior Collaborator From Singapore

Post Date November 20, 2019
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I am a recent college graduate working on AI policy with an emphasis on global catastrophic risk. This past April, I moved back to my home country, Singapore, to start as a Research Associate at the Centre for AI and Data Governance at Singapore Management University. I first got in touch with GCRI during my time at university, and reconnected over the summer as part of its advising/collaboration program.

The Centre for AI and Data Governance is
fairly new. It mainly focuses on scholarship of Singapore law …

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Summary of 2019 Advising and Collaboration Program

Post Date November 18, 2019
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In May, GCRI put out an open call for people interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us on projects. This was a new initiative for us, enabled by funding we received last year. It was also a bit of an experiment: we did not know how much interest there would be, or how constructive it would be either for the advisees/collaborators or for us.

We are
quite happy with how the advising/collaboration program turned out. We received
inquiries from many talented people from around the …

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July Newsletter: Asteroid-Nuclear Risk Analysis

Post Date July 16, 2019
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Dear friends,

One reason it is important to analyze the global catastrophic risks quantitatively is that some decisions involve tradeoffs between them. An action may reduce one risk while increasing another. It’s important to know whether the decrease in the one risk is large enough to offset the increase in the other.

This month, we announce a new paper that presents a detailed analysis of one such decision: the use of nuclear explosives to deflect Earthbound asteroids away. Nuclear deflection is an option under active consideration by …

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May Newsletter: Call For Advisees & Collaborators

Post Date May 30, 2019
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Dear friends,

I’m pleased to announce that GCRI has recently launched an open call for advisees and collaborators. If you are interested in working with GCRI, or if you would simply like some advice from us on how you can get involved in global catastrophic risk, then please don’t hesitate to reach out. We welcome inquiries from people at all career points, from students to senior scholars and professionals. Please see our blog post for details.

Sincerely,

Seth BaumExecutive Director

Planetary Defense

GCRI Executive Director Seth Baum gave a talk titled …

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Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators, May 2019

Post Date May 29, 2019
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GCRI is currently welcoming inquiries from people who are
interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us on projects.

At this time we are holding a preliminary, informal, open call for people at all career points interested in working on any aspect of global catastrophic risk. We cannot engage with everyone, but will try to talk to as many interested people as we can.

Of particular interest:

Scholars and professionals at intermediate and senior career points (Ph.D. graduates and up, or equivalent professional experience) whose work overlaps with …

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