Difference between revisions of "Timeline of existential risk"

Revision as of 17:54, 26 June 2022

This is a timeline of existential risk studies.

The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

Time period	Development summary	More details

Year	Event type	Details
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.
2021		As of date, humanity has about 13,410 nuclear weapons, thousands of which are on hair-trigger alert.^[1]

The initial version of the timeline was written by FIXME.

Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:

↑ "Status of World Nuclear Forces". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 26 June 2022.

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