Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

In July 2008 the Future of Humanity Institute hosted a number of leading experts on different global catastrophic risks. The conference provided delegates with an overview of the key risks, and the state of current thinking on each of them. It brought scholars together from many different disciplines to discuss the common problems and methodologies which affect the study of global catastrophic risks.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Biotechnology and Biosecurity	Lecture on Biotechnology; its applications, its implications, risks and the challenges this new technology brings.	Ali Nouri	17 August, 2009
Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008	Nick Bostrom provides an introduction to the Global Catastrophic Risks Conference and briefly addressing some of the key themes running through it.	Nick Bostrom	17 August, 2009
Probing the Improbable	In this lecture, Toby Ord discusses the philosophical questions surrounding the risk of a global catastophe as well as the implications of a larger Hadron Collider.	Toby Ord	17 August, 2009
Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature	How does knowledge of the "known" allow scientists to anticipate consequences of the "unknown"? Possible outcomes of new high-energy experiments will be used to address this topic, covering both scientific and sociological aspects of the issue.	Michelangelo Mangano	8 December, 2008
Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction	This lecture examines how, for many types of disasters, severity seems to follow a power law distribution, and how the level of resistance to such disruptions can affect the future of humanity.	Robin Hanson	8 December, 2008
Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe	This talk outlines astrophysical issues related to the long term fate of the cosmos. It considers the evolution of planets, stars, stellar populations, galaxies, and the universe itself over time scales that greatly exceed the current age of the universe.	Fred Adams	8 December, 2008
Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases	This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic discourse reflect these types of millennial psychology	James Hughes	8 December, 2008

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