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| 1973 || {{dts|March 10}} || || {{W|Nick Bostrom}} is born.
 
| 1973 || {{dts|March 10}} || || {{W|Nick Bostrom}} is born.
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| 1998 || {{dts|August 30}} || || The domain name for the Anthropic Principle website, <code>anthropic-principle.com</code>, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=anthropic-principle.com |title=Showing results for: anthropic-principle.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 1998-08-30T04:00:00Z}}</ref> The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website is from January 25, 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anthropic-principle.com:80/ |title=anthropic-principle.com |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990125093239/http://www.anthropic-principle.com:80/ |archivedate=January 25, 1999 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2001 || {{dts|October 31}} || || The Simulation Argument website's domain name, <code>simulation-argument.com</code>, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=simulation-argument.com |title=Showing results for: simulation-argument.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 2001-10-31T08:55:28Z}}</ref> The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website would be on December 5, 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000*/simulation-argument.com |title=simulation-argument.com |publisher=Internet Archive |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref> The website hosts information about the [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis|simulation hypothesis]], especially as articulated by Bostrom. In the FHI Achievements Report for 2008–2010, the Simulation Argument website is listed under websites maintained by FHI members.<ref name="achievements-report-2008-to-2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/19900/Achievements_Report_2008-2010.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516013458/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/19900/Achievements_Report_2008-2010.pdf |archivedate=May 16, 2011 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
 
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| 2005 || {{dts|June 1}} or {{dts|November 29}} || || The Future of Humanity Institute is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/research/programmes/future-humanity/ |publisher=Oxford Martin School |title=About {{!}} Future of Humanity Institute {{!}} Programmes |accessdate=February 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fhi.ox.ac.uk/ |title=Future of Humanity Institute |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051013060521/fhi.ox.ac.uk/ |archivedate=October 13, 2005 |dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/Papers/FHI%20Newsletter%201%20-%20April%20200611.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512085807/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/Papers/FHI%20Newsletter%201%20-%20April%20200611.pdf |archivedate=May 12, 2006 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
 
| 2005 || {{dts|June 1}} or {{dts|November 29}} || || The Future of Humanity Institute is established.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/research/programmes/future-humanity/ |publisher=Oxford Martin School |title=About {{!}} Future of Humanity Institute {{!}} Programmes |accessdate=February 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://fhi.ox.ac.uk/ |title=Future of Humanity Institute |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051013060521/fhi.ox.ac.uk/ |archivedate=October 13, 2005 |dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/Papers/FHI%20Newsletter%201%20-%20April%20200611.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512085807/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/Papers/FHI%20Newsletter%201%20-%20April%20200611.pdf |archivedate=May 12, 2006 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2006 || {{dts|July}} || || "The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics" by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/statusquo.pdf |title=The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics |accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref> The paper introduces the [[wikipedia:Reversal test|reversal test]] in the context of bioethics of human enhancement.
 
| 2006 || {{dts|July}} || || "The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics" by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/statusquo.pdf |title=The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics |accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref> The paper introduces the [[wikipedia:Reversal test|reversal test]] in the context of bioethics of human enhancement.
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| 2006 || {{dts|July 19}} || || The domain name for the existential risk website, <code>existential-risk.org</code>, is registered on this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=existential-risk.org |title=Showing results for: EXISTENTIAL-RISK.ORG |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 2006-07-19T23:23:38Z}}</ref>
 
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| 2006 || {{dts|November 20}} || || [[wikipedia:Robin Hanson|Robin Hanson]] starts ''[[wikipedia:Overcoming Bias|Overcoming Bias]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.overcomingbias.com/bio |title=Overcoming Bias : Bio |accessdate=June 1, 2017}}</ref> The first post on the blog seems to be from November 20.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070119013818/http://robinhanson.typepad.com:80/overcomingbias/2006/11/introduction.html |title=Overcoming Bias: How To Join |accessdate=September 26, 2017}}</ref> On one of the earliest snapshots of the blog, the listed contributors are: Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Eric Schliesser, Hal Finney, Nicholas Shackel, Mike Huemer, Guy Kahane, Rebecca Roache, Eric Zitzewitz, Peter McCluskey, Justin Wolfers, Erik Angner, David Pennock, Paul Gowder, Chris Hibbert, David Balan, Patri Friedman, Lee Corbin, Anders Sandberg, and Carl Shulman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207103140/http://overcomingbias.com/ |title=Overcoming Bias |accessdate=September 26, 2017}}</ref> The blog seems to have received support from FHI in the beginning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html |title=FHI Updates |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705000635/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html#blog |archivedate=July 5, 2007 |dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref name="fhi-report">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/newsletters/Final%20Complete%20FHI%20Report.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117141825/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/newsletters/Final%20Complete%20FHI%20Report.pdf |archivedate=January 17, 2009 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
 
| 2006 || {{dts|November 20}} || || [[wikipedia:Robin Hanson|Robin Hanson]] starts ''[[wikipedia:Overcoming Bias|Overcoming Bias]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.overcomingbias.com/bio |title=Overcoming Bias : Bio |accessdate=June 1, 2017}}</ref> The first post on the blog seems to be from November 20.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070119013818/http://robinhanson.typepad.com:80/overcomingbias/2006/11/introduction.html |title=Overcoming Bias: How To Join |accessdate=September 26, 2017}}</ref> On one of the earliest snapshots of the blog, the listed contributors are: Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Eric Schliesser, Hal Finney, Nicholas Shackel, Mike Huemer, Guy Kahane, Rebecca Roache, Eric Zitzewitz, Peter McCluskey, Justin Wolfers, Erik Angner, David Pennock, Paul Gowder, Chris Hibbert, David Balan, Patri Friedman, Lee Corbin, Anders Sandberg, and Carl Shulman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207103140/http://overcomingbias.com/ |title=Overcoming Bias |accessdate=September 26, 2017}}</ref> The blog seems to have received support from FHI in the beginning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html |title=FHI Updates |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705000635/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html#blog |archivedate=July 5, 2007 |dead-url=yes}}</ref><ref name="fhi-report">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/newsletters/Final%20Complete%20FHI%20Report.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117141825/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/newsletters/Final%20Complete%20FHI%20Report.pdf |archivedate=January 17, 2009 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2008 || || || "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom is published.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
 
| 2008 || || || "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom is published.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
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| 2008 || {{dts|January 22}} || || The domain name for the Global Catastrophic Risks website, <code>global-catastrophic-risks.com</code>, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=global-catastrophic-risks.com |title=Showing results for: global-catastrophic-risks.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 2008-01-22T20:47:11Z}}</ref> The first snapshot on the Internet Archive would be on May 5, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701000000*/global-catastrophic-risks.com |title=global-catastrophic-risks.com |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
 
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| 2008 || {{Dts|September 15}} || Publication || ''[[w:Global Catastrophic Risks (book)|Global Catastrophic Risks]]'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Global-Catastrophic-Risks-Martin-Rees/dp/0198570503 |title=Global Catastrophic Risks: Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković: 9780198570509: Amazon.com: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2010-11-03-books" />
 
| 2008 || {{Dts|September 15}} || Publication || ''[[w:Global Catastrophic Risks (book)|Global Catastrophic Risks]]'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Global-Catastrophic-Risks-Martin-Rees/dp/0198570503 |title=Global Catastrophic Risks: Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković: 9780198570509: Amazon.com: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2010-11-03-books" />
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| 2009 || || || "Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes" by Rafaela Hillerbrand, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg is published.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
 
| 2009 || || || "Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes" by Rafaela Hillerbrand, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg is published.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
 
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 1}} || || On the group blog (at the time) ''Overcoming Bias'' Nick Bostrom publishes a blog post proposing the Parliamentary Model of dealing with moral uncertainty. The blog post mentions that he is writing a paper on the topic with Toby Ord, but as of March 2018 the paper seems to never have been published.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/moral-uncertainty-towards-a-solution.html |title=Overcoming Bias : Moral uncertainty – towards a solution? |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 1}} || || On the group blog (at the time) ''Overcoming Bias'' Nick Bostrom publishes a blog post proposing the Parliamentary Model of dealing with moral uncertainty. The blog post mentions that he is writing a paper on the topic with Toby Ord, but as of March 2018 the paper seems to never have been published. The paper title might be "Fundamental Moral Uncertainty".<ref name="achievements-report-2008-to-2010" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/moral-uncertainty-towards-a-solution.html |title=Overcoming Bias : Moral uncertainty – towards a solution? |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref> Despite the idea not being published in full, it is often referenced in discussions.
 
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| 2009 || {{dts|January 22}} || || ''Human Enhancement'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Enhancement-Julian-Savulescu/dp/0199299722/ |title=Human Enhancement: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom: 9780199299720: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2010-11-03-books" /><ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
 
| 2009 || {{dts|January 22}} || || ''Human Enhancement'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Enhancement-Julian-Savulescu/dp/0199299722/ |title=Human Enhancement: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom: 9780199299720: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2010-11-03-books" /><ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" />
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| 2011 || {{dts|March 18}} || || ''Enhancing Human Capacities'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enhancing-Human-Capacities-Julian-Savulescu/dp/1405195819/ |title=Enhancing Human Capacities: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane: 9781405195812: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs/recent_books |title=Future of Humanity Institute - Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116012459/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs/recent_books |archivedate=January 16, 2013 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
 
| 2011 || {{dts|March 18}} || || ''Enhancing Human Capacities'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enhancing-Human-Capacities-Julian-Savulescu/dp/1405195819/ |title=Enhancing Human Capacities: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane: 9781405195812: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs/recent_books |title=Future of Humanity Institute - Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116012459/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs/recent_books |archivedate=January 16, 2013 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|August 15}} || || The first Internet Archive snapshot of the Winter Intelligence Conference website is from this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.winterintelligence.org:80/ |title=Winter Intelligence Conferences {{!}} The future of artificial general intelligence |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815232147/http://www.winterintelligence.org:80/ |archivedate=August 15, 2012 |dead-url=yes}}</ref> FHI hosts the conference for 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/archive_news |title=Future of Humanity Institute - News Archive |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112235735/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/archive_news |archivedate=January 12, 2013 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|September 5}} || || The FHI {{W|Twitter}} account, @FHIOxford, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/fhioxford?lang=en |title=Future of Humanity Institute (@FHIOxford) |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || || || The Global Priorities Project (GPP) runs as a pilot project within the Centre for Effective Altruism. Team members of GPP include Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/GPP-Strategy-Overview-February-2015.pdf |title=Global Priorities Project Strategy Overview |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref> GPP would also eventually become a collaboration between Centre for Effective Altruism and FHI.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalprioritiesproject.org/ |publisher=The Global Priorities Project |title=HOME |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || || || The Global Priorities Project (GPP) runs as a pilot project within the Centre for Effective Altruism. Team members of GPP include Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/GPP-Strategy-Overview-February-2015.pdf |title=Global Priorities Project Strategy Overview |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref> GPP would also eventually become a collaboration between Centre for Effective Altruism and FHI.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalprioritiesproject.org/ |publisher=The Global Priorities Project |title=HOME |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
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===What the timeline is still missing===
 
===What the timeline is still missing===
  
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* the entries in https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/reporting/
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* check if all featured publications are in the timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20130112235857/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/selected_outputs
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* i'm curious what output is associated with "Applied epistemology" research agenda https://web.archive.org/web/20130116011525/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/research/rationality_and_wisdom
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* http://lesswrong.com/lw/faa/room_for_more_funding_at_the_future_of_humanity/
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* http://lesswrong.com/lw/7sc/siai_vs_fhi_achievements_20082010/
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* featured publications on https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/publications/
 
* http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fa/personal_thoughts_on_careers_in_ai_policy_and/ ?
 
* http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fa/personal_thoughts_on_careers_in_ai_policy_and/ ?
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* when did FHI start doing more ML-based stuff? was it after it hired owain evans?
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* rebecca roache enhanced punishment stuff?
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** http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/03/the-future-of-punishment-a-clarification/
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** http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/08/enhanced-punishment-can-technology-make-life-sentences-longer/
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** http://lesswrong.com/lw/jv4/open_thread_1117_march_2014/ap6j
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110908095411/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/19902/Final_Complete_FHI_Report.pdf (see pages 76-77)
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* http://lesswrong.com/lw/5il/siai_an_examination/4fy5
  
 
===Timeline update strategy===
 
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* FHI posts new quarterly updates here: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/reporting/
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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This is a timeline of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI).

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1973 March 10 Nick Bostrom is born.
1998 August 30 The domain name for the Anthropic Principle website, anthropic-principle.com, is registered.[1] The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website is from January 25, 1999.[2]
2001 October 31 The Simulation Argument website's domain name, simulation-argument.com, is registered.[3] The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website would be on December 5, 2001.[4] The website hosts information about the simulation hypothesis, especially as articulated by Bostrom. In the FHI Achievements Report for 2008–2010, the Simulation Argument website is listed under websites maintained by FHI members.[5]
2005 June 1 or November 29 The Future of Humanity Institute is established.[6][7][8]
2006 "What is a Singleton?" by Nick Bostrom is published in the journal Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations. The paper introduces the idea of a singleton, a hypothetical "world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level".[9]
2006 March 2 The ENHANCE project website is created[10] by Anders Sandberg.[11]
2006 July "The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics" by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord is published.[12] The paper introduces the reversal test in the context of bioethics of human enhancement.
2006 July 19 The domain name for the existential risk website, existential-risk.org, is registered on this day.[13]
2006 November 20 Robin Hanson starts Overcoming Bias.[14] The first post on the blog seems to be from November 20.[15] On one of the earliest snapshots of the blog, the listed contributors are: Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Eric Schliesser, Hal Finney, Nicholas Shackel, Mike Huemer, Guy Kahane, Rebecca Roache, Eric Zitzewitz, Peter McCluskey, Justin Wolfers, Erik Angner, David Pennock, Paul Gowder, Chris Hibbert, David Balan, Patri Friedman, Lee Corbin, Anders Sandberg, and Carl Shulman.[16] The blog seems to have received support from FHI in the beginning.[17][11]
2005–2007 Lighthill Risk Network is created by Peter Taylor of FHI.[11]
2007 May The Whole Brain Emulation Workshop is hosted by FHI.[11] The workshop would eventually lead to the publication of "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" in 2008.[18]
2007 August 24 Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker is published.[19][20]
2007 November Practical Ethics in the News (at www.practicalethicsnews.com) launches.[18] (I think this is the same as Practical Ethics mentioned below.) At some point the site begins redirecting to http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ but as of March 2018 the site is "temporarily offline for maintenance" (for several years now).
2008 Practical Ethics, a blog about ethics by FHI's Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, launches.[21]
2008 "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom is published.[18]
2008 January 22 The domain name for the Global Catastrophic Risks website, global-catastrophic-risks.com, is registered.[22] The first snapshot on the Internet Archive would be on May 5, 2008.[23]
2008 September 15 Publication Global Catastrophic Risks is published.[24][20]
2009 "Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes" by Rafaela Hillerbrand, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg is published.[18]
2009 January 1 On the group blog (at the time) Overcoming Bias Nick Bostrom publishes a blog post proposing the Parliamentary Model of dealing with moral uncertainty. The blog post mentions that he is writing a paper on the topic with Toby Ord, but as of March 2018 the paper seems to never have been published. The paper title might be "Fundamental Moral Uncertainty".[5][25] Despite the idea not being published in full, it is often referenced in discussions.
2009 January 22 Human Enhancement is published.[26][20][18]
2009 February Project LessWrong, the group blog about rationality, launches.[27] The blog is sponsored by FHI,[18] although it is unclear to what extent FHI is involved in the creation.[28]
2010 June 21 Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom is published. The book covers the topic of reasoning under observation selection effects.[29][20]
2011 March 18 Enhancing Human Capacities is published.[30][31]
2012 August 15 The first Internet Archive snapshot of the Winter Intelligence Conference website is from this day.[32] FHI hosts the conference for 2012.[33]
2012 September 5 The FHI Twitter account, @FHIOxford, is registered.[34]
2014 The Global Priorities Project (GPP) runs as a pilot project within the Centre for Effective Altruism. Team members of GPP include Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute.[35] GPP would also eventually become a collaboration between Centre for Effective Altruism and FHI.[36]
2014 July–September Influence Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published.[37] In March 2017, the Open Philanthropy Project considered this book FHI's "most significant output so far and the best strategic analysis of potential risks from advanced AI to date."[38]
2015 The Strategic AI Research Center starts some time after this period.[39]
2015 "Learning the Preferences of Bounded Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[40][41]
2016 Stuart Armstrong's paper "Off-policy Monte Carlo agents with variable behaviour policies" is published.[42][41]
2016 "Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[43][41]
2016 June 1 The paper "Safely interruptible agents" is announced on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog. One of the paper's authors is Stuart Armstrong of FHI.[44][41]
2016 September The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $115,652 to FHI to support the hiring of Piers Millett, who will work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.[45]
2016 September 16 Jan Leike's paper "Exploration Potential" is first uploaded to the arXiv.[46][41]
2017 February 9 Nick Bostrom's paper "Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development" is published in the journal Global Policy.[47][41]
2017 March The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $1,995,425 to FHI for general support.[38]
2017 April 27 "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox" is uploaded to the arXiv.[48][49]
2017 July The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $299,320 to Yale University to support "to support research on the global politics of advanced artificial intelligence". The work will be led by Allan Dafoe, who will conduct part of the work at FHI.[50]
2017 July 17 "Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention" is uploaded to the arXiv.[51][49]
2017 September 29 Effective Altruism Grants fall 2017 recipients are announced. One of the recipients is Gregory Lewis, who will use the grant for "Research into biological risk mitigation with the Future of Humanity Institute." The grant amount for Lewis is £15,000 (about $20,000).[52]
2018 February 20 Publication The report "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation" is published. The report forecasts malicious use of artificial intelligence in the short term and makes recommendations on how to mitigate these risks from AI. The report is authored by individuals at Future of Humanity Institute, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for a New American Security, and other institutions.[53][54][55]

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