If you could broadcast one statistic about catastrophic risks to the screens of everyone in this forum, what would it be? :-)
I regret that I don’t have a good answer to this question. Global catastrophic risk doesn’t have much in the way of statistics, due to the lack of prior global catastrophes. (Which is a good thing!)
There are some statistics on the amount of work being done on global catastrophic risk. For that, I would recommend the paper Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: A living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk by Gorm Shackelford and colleagues at CSER. It finds that there is a significant body of work on the topic, in contrast with some prior concerns, such as those comparing the amount of research on global catastrophic risk to the amount of research on dung beetles.
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If you could broadcast one statistic about catastrophic risks to the screens of everyone in this forum, what would it be? :-)
I regret that I don’t have a good answer to this question. Global catastrophic risk doesn’t have much in the way of statistics, due to the lack of prior global catastrophes. (Which is a good thing!)
There are some statistics on the amount of work being done on global catastrophic risk. For that, I would recommend the paper Accumulating evidence using crowdsourcing and machine learning: A living bibliography about existential risk and global catastrophic risk by Gorm Shackelford and colleagues at CSER. It finds that there is a significant body of work on the topic, in contrast with some prior concerns, such as those comparing the amount of research on global catastrophic risk to the amount of research on dung beetles.