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5 results for "existential-risk"

ZE_1_19 Credible Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_1_19 — Risk Ethics & the Precautionary Principle: Uncertainty, Decision-Making & Moral Responsibility

Risk ethics — the philosophical study of how moral agents should make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, incomplete information, and potentially catastrophic consequences — has become one of the most practically

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O_1_10 Verified Earth Anomalies

O_1_10 — Carrington Event and Space Weather Threats to Earth

The Carrington Event of September 1–2, 1859 was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history — caused by a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun that struck Earth's magnetosphere approximately 17.6 h

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ZD_2_17 Credible Information & Computation

ZD_2_17 — AI Alignment & Existential Risk

AI alignment — the challenge of ensuring artificial intelligence systems pursue goals consistent with human values and intentions — has emerged as one of the defining technical and philosophical problems of the 21st cent

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ZE_5_20 Verified Ethics & Applied Philosophy

ZE_5_20 — Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

The ethics of artificial intelligence addresses the moral, social, and existential challenges arising from the development and deployment of increasingly powerful AI systems. [KEY FINDING] Core issues span three horizons

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ZA_1_20 Verified Physics & Quantum

ZA_1_20 — False Vacuum Decay: Metastability, Bubble Nucleation & Cosmic Catastrophe

False vacuum decay — the quantum mechanical tunneling of the universe from a metastable vacuum state to a lower-energy true vacuum — represents one of the most dramatic predictions of quantum field theory and, if the cur

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