Timeline of existential risk
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This is a timeline of existential risk studies.
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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| 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. | ||
| 2020 | January 23 | The Doomsday Clock moves to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been in its 73-year history.[1] | ||
| 2021 | As of date, humanity has about 13,410 nuclear weapons, thousands of which are on hair-trigger alert.[2] |
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References
- ↑ "'If there's ever a time to wake up, it's now': Doomsday Clock moves 20-seconds closer to midnight". ABC News. 23 January 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ↑ "Status of World Nuclear Forces". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
