Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk - 80,000 Hours

Fifty-one approaches to consider.

On this page: Introduction 1 Policy and research recommendations 1.1 Engineered Pandemics 1.2 Unaligned Artificial Intelligence 1.3 Asteroids & Comets 1.4 Supervolcanic Eruptions 1.5 Stellar Explosions 1.6 Nuclear Weapons 1.7 Climate 1.8 Environmental Damage 1.9 General 2 Learn more NASA repurposed the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to identify asteroids that might collide with Earth. What other practical projects can help safeguard humanity's future? In his book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity , 80,000 Hours trustee Dr Toby Ord suggests a range of research and

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