Difference between revisions of "Timeline of existential risk"
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Revision as of 17:47, 26 June 2022
This is a timeline of existential risk studies.
Contents
Sample questions
The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details | |
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| 1965 | I. J. Good speculates that artificial general intelligence might bring about an intelligence explosion. | |||
| 1993 | Literature | Cathy O'Neil publishes Weapons of Math Destruction. | ||
| 2005 | Organization | The Future of Humanity Institute is founded. | ||
| 2012 | Organization | The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is founded. | United Kingdom | |
| 2014 | Literature | Elizabeth Kolbert publishes The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. | ||
| 2015 | Literature | Yuval Noah Harari publishes Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. |
Meta information on the timeline
How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by FIXME.
Funding information for this timeline is available.
Feedback and comments
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