CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority — Global Policy
- Key
- bostrom2013existential
- Authors
- Bostrom, Nick
- Issued
- 2013
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Global Policy
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15-31
Raw CSL JSON
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"DOI": "10.1111/1758-5899.12002",
"URL": "https://files.givewell.org/files/shallow/gcr/Bostrom_2013.pdf",
"page": "15-31",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "1",
"title": "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority",
"author": [
{
"given": "Nick",
"family": "Bostrom"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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2013
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},
"volume": "4",
"container-title": "Global Policy"
}
Claims
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Bostrom argues that existential risks — those threatening the entire future of humanity — warrant extreme priority because even small reductions in such risk carry enormous expected value.
"Many theories of value imply that even relatively small reductions in net existential risk have enormous expected value."
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