Slides for the FutureDay 2014 talk on existential risk.

1. Existential Risks: An Overview
Future Day 2014
Patrick Robotham
March 1, 2014

3. Should we care about the future?
Creditors care
Politicians and businesses don’t
Dynamic Inconsistency
Future is uncertain

4. The case for reducing existential risk

5. The case for reducing existential risk
Existential risks kill most smiley faces!

6. Existential risk vs global catastrophic risk
Humanity can recover from catastrophe

7. Nuclear War

19. Existential Risk Orgs
Lifeboat Foundation
Future of Humanity Institute
World Economic Forum
International Risk Governance Council
Center for the Study of Existential Risk

20. Further Reading
Bostrom, Nick, and Milan M. Cirkovic, eds. Global catastrophic
risks. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Bostrom, Nick. ”Existential risks.” Journal of Evolution and
Technology 9 (2002).
World Economic Forum. ”Global Risk Report 2014”