## Tags - Part of: [[Future]] - Related: - Includes: - Additional: ## Main resources - [Global catastrophic risk - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk) <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 5; "></iframe> ## Landscapes - [[Benefits, risks, impact and future of artificial intelligence]] - [[Risks of artificial intelligence]] - [The Map of Doom | Apocalypses Ranked - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htf0XR6W9WQ) <iframe title="The Map of Doom | Apocalypses Ranked" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Htf0XR6W9WQ?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" allowfullscreen="" allow="fullscreen" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> - [e/acc Leader Beff Jezos vs Doomer Connor Leahy - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxi0xSBOaQ&pp=ygUVbWwgc3RyZWV0IHRhbGsgZG9vbWVy) - [Joscha Bach and Connor Leahy \[HQ VERSION\] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02Obj8j6FQ&t=97s&pp=ygUVbWwgc3RyZWV0IHRhbGsgam9zY2hh) ## Written by AI (may include factually incorrect information) - Here's a comprehensive map of existential risks and suffering risks: #### Technological Risks - **Artificial Intelligence** - Unaligned superintelligent AI - AI-enabled warfare - Autonomous weapons systems - AI-driven social manipulation - **Biotechnology** - Engineered pandemics - Gene editing accidents - Synthetic biology mishaps - Bioweapons - **Nanotechnology** - Grey goo scenario - Weaponized nanotech - Uncontrolled self-replication - **Nuclear Technology** - Global nuclear war - Nuclear winter - Radioactive contamination - **Climate Change** - Runaway greenhouse effect - Ecosystem collapse - Extreme weather events - Sea level rise - **Other Emerging Technologies** - Molecular manufacturing risks - Geoengineering backfire - Quantum computing cryptography break #### Societal Risks - Global totalitarianism - Civilizational collapse - Resource depletion - Overpopulation - Economic instability ### Natural Risks - **Astronomical** - Asteroid/comet impact - Solar flares - Nearby supernova - Gamma-ray bursts - **Geological** - Supervolcano eruption - Extreme geomagnetic reversal - **Biological** - Natural pandemic - Ecosystem collapse ### Incidental S-Risks - Suffering simulations for research/entertainment - Exploitation of digital minds - Unintended consequences of space colonization - Factory farming on massive scales - Accidental creation of suffering subroutines in AI ### Agential S-Risks - Malevolent artificial intelligence - Sadistic posthuman civilizations - Warfare using sentient weapons - Punishment/revenge scenarios - Mind crime (torturing simulated beings) ### Natural S-Risks - Spreading of wild animal suffering to space - Natural suffering on alien worlds - Cosmic processes creating suffering (e.g. Boltzmann brains) ### Philosophical S-Risks - Infinite ethics problems - Creation of new forms of suffering beyond current comprehension - Expansion of consciousness/sentience increasing capacity for suffering ### Hybrid Risks - **AI-Enabled S-Risks** - AI creating vast numbers of suffering digital minds - AI optimizing for the wrong values, maximizing suffering - AI simulations of evolutionary processes - **Biotechnology S-Risks** - Creation of beings with enhanced capacity for suffering - Engineered organisms experiencing constant pain - **Societal S-Risks** - Dystopian societies optimized for suffering - Memetic hazards spreading ideologies of suffering This map covers a wide range of existential risks and suffering risks, from technological and natural threats to more speculative philosophical scenarios. It's important to note that many of these risks are interconnected and could potentially amplify each other[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Citations: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk [2] https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/s-risks/ [3] https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/risks/ [4] https://longtermrisk.org/beginners-guide-to-reducing-s-risks/ [5] https://causeprioritization.org/Existential_risk [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering_risks [7] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MymQqnT8gZ2yjmeYX/beginner-s-guide-to-reducing-s-risks-link-post [8] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2238287