existential risk

11 April 2025
Four types of “existential” threat

The term "existential threat" gets used quite broadly, and I think it's often used when it's not really appropriate. This is a typology of how I think about four different types of "existential" threa…
21 October 2022
Why I’m preoccupied with existential risks – and you should be, too

I'm preoccupied with existential risks — not because I think a catastrophe is likely, but because it's possible, and the stakes are everything. Toby Ord puts the odds at 1 in 6 this century. That's un…

Four types of “existential” threat