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Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest by Cihon, Peter, Schuett, Jonas, Baum, Seth D.

“…Corporations play a major role in artificial intelligence (AI) research, development, and deployment, with profound consequences for society. This paper…”
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Medium-Term Artificial Intelligence and Society by Baum, Seth D.

“…There has been extensive attention to near-term and long-term AI technology and its accompanying societal issues, but the medium-term has gone largely…”
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Integrating the planetary boundaries and global catastrophic risk paradigms by Baum, Seth D., Handoh, Itsuki C.

“…Planetary boundaries (PBs) and global catastrophic risk (GCR) have emerged in recent years as important paradigms for understanding and addressing global…”
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Assessing the risk of takeover catastrophe from large language models by Baum, Seth D

“…This article presents a risk analysis of large language models (LLMs), a type of "generative" artificial intelligence (AI) system that produces text, commonly…”
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Countering Superintelligence Misinformation by Baum, Seth

“…Superintelligence is a potential type of future artificial intelligence (AI) that is significantly more intelligent than humans in all major respects. If…”
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Double catastrophe: intermittent stratospheric geoengineering induced by societal collapse by Baum, Seth D., Maher, Timothy M., Haqq-Misra, Jacob

“…Perceived failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has prompted interest in avoiding the harms of climate change via geoengineering, that is, the intentional…”
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Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence by Baum, Seth D.

“…A major approach to the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is to use social choice, in which the AI is designed to act according to the aggregate views of…”
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Assessing natural global catastrophic risks by Baum, Seth D.

“…The risk of global catastrophe from natural sources may be significantly larger than previous analyses have found. In the study of global catastrophic risk…”
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Risk–Risk Tradeoff Analysis of Nuclear Explosives for Asteroid Deflection by Baum, Seth D.

“…To prevent catastrophic asteroid–Earth collisions, it has been proposed to use nuclear explosives to deflect away earthbound asteroids. However, this policy of…”
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On the promotion of safe and socially beneficial artificial intelligence by Baum, Seth D.

“…This paper discusses means for promoting artificial intelligence (AI) that is designed to be safe and beneficial for society (or simply “beneficial AI”). The…”
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Uncertain human consequences in asteroid risk analysis and the global catastrophe threshold by Baum, Seth D.

“…This paper studies the risk of collision between asteroids and Earth. It focuses on uncertainty in the human consequences of asteroid collisions, with emphasis…”
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Quantifying the probability of existential catastrophe: A reply to Beard et al by Baum, Seth D.

“…•The probability of existential catastrophe is inherently linked to the severity.•Achieving a high quality analysis requires investment.•Probability analysis…”
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Accounting for violent conflict risk in planetary defense decisions by Baum, Seth D.

“…This paper provides the first-ever survey of the implications of violent conflict risk for planetary defense program decisions. Arguably, the aim of planetary…”
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Collective action on artificial intelligence: A primer and review by de Neufville, Robert, Baum, Seth D.

“…Progress on artificial intelligence (AI) requires collective action: the actions of two or more individuals or agents that in some way combine to achieve a…”
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Public health and nuclear winter: addressing a catastrophic threat by Vilhelmsson, Andreas, Baum, Seth D.

“…Despite the end of the Cold War, the world still has thousands of nuclear weapons and adversarial relations between the countries that possess them. A nuclear…”
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Pandemic refuges: Lessons from 2 years of COVID‐19 by Baum, Seth D., Adams, Vanessa M.

“…This paper relates evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic to the concept of pandemic refuges, as developed in literature on global catastrophic risk. In this…”
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Cost–benefit analysis of space exploration: Some ethical considerations by Baum, Seth D.

“…Humanity faces many important decisions about space exploration. A major but controversial decision-making paradigm is cost–benefit analysis (CBA). This paper…”
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Nonhuman Value: A Survey of the Intrinsic Valuation of Natural and Artificial Nonhuman Entities by Owe, Andrea, Baum, Seth D., Coeckelbergh, Mark

“…To be intrinsically valuable means to be valuable for its own sake. Moral philosophy is often ethically anthropocentric, meaning that it locates intrinsic…”
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From AI for people to AI for the world and the universe by Baum, Seth D., Owe, Andrea

“…Recent work in AI ethics often calls for AI to advance human values and interests. The concept of “AI for people” is one notable example. Though commendable in…”
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Evaluating future nanotechnology: The net societal impacts of atomically precise manufacturing by Umbrello, Steven, Baum, Seth D.

“…•Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) is the assembly of materials with atomic precision.•APM is potential future technology that could have extensive…”
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