This is incredibly useful foundational work for both the policy/advocacy side and the academic research side of existential and global catastrophic risk. Really valuable (and I imagine time-consuming) work to compile these two lists of:
338 academic articles and reports since 2016 related to existential and global catastrophic risk
257 policy ideas (so far)
I can imagine these being useful for (amongst other things):
syllabi and reading lists for students and those spinning up in the field;
academic research synthesising evidence on these different interventions and doing prioritisation (like GiveWell, J-PAL or Conservation Evidence);
showing where the gaps in the field currently are;
Thanks a lot, this looks like a great resource. This would add a lot of value I think: Properly evaluate existing policy ideas to identify and promote the set of high-quality ideas.
I would be really interesting to see how different experts within the EA community rank the ideas within the same category (e.g. AI) on certain criteria (e.g. impact, tractability, neglectedness, but there are probably better critera). Or enrich this data with the group that is probably most able to push for certain reforms (e.g. American civil servants, people that engage with party politics etc.).
This would make the database actionable to the EA community and thereby even more valuable.
This is incredibly useful foundational work for both the policy/advocacy side and the academic research side of existential and global catastrophic risk. Really valuable (and I imagine time-consuming) work to compile these two lists of:
338 academic articles and reports since 2016 related to existential and global catastrophic risk
257 policy ideas (so far)
I can imagine these being useful for (amongst other things):
syllabi and reading lists for students and those spinning up in the field;
academic research synthesising evidence on these different interventions and doing prioritisation (like GiveWell, J-PAL or Conservation Evidence);
showing where the gaps in the field currently are;
expert elicitations (like this and this);
helping policy/advocacy groups prioritise and develop policy proposals (like CLTR’s Future Proof); and
prompting people to start organisations/campaigns for particular interventions (like Charity Entrepreneurship’s database)
Well done – I hope you get more funding and volunteers to complete this work!
Thanks a lot, this looks like a great resource. This would add a lot of value I think: Properly evaluate existing policy ideas to identify and promote the set of high-quality ideas.
I would be really interesting to see how different experts within the EA community rank the ideas within the same category (e.g. AI) on certain criteria (e.g. impact, tractability, neglectedness, but there are probably better critera). Or enrich this data with the group that is probably most able to push for certain reforms (e.g. American civil servants, people that engage with party politics etc.).
This would make the database actionable to the EA community and thereby even more valuable.