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Ex­is­ten­tial risk fiction

TagLast edit: Apr 13, 2022, 10:16 AM by Leo

Posts regarding works of existential risk fiction (e.g., Don’t Look Up, The Man Who Saved the World, Terminator), either currently in existence or proposed.

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Ap­pendix to Bridg­ing Demonstration

mako yassJun 1, 2022, 8:30 PM
18 points
2 comments28 min readEA link

Sto­ry­tel­ler’s con­ven­tion, 2223 A.D.

plexApr 7, 2023, 11:54 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

13 ideas for new Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Movies & TV Shows – what are your ideas?

HaydnBelfieldApr 12, 2022, 11:47 AM
81 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

A ranked list of all EA-rele­vant doc­u­men­taries, movies, and TV se­ries I’ve watched

BrianTanFeb 21, 2021, 11:00 AM
81 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What’s your favourite Science Fic­tion book/​TV se­ries/​movie/​anime/​other?

Luca ParodiOct 11, 2022, 3:46 PM
6 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Some ex­am­ples of EA Themes in Fic­tion—Please add your own!

JWS 🔸Aug 18, 2023, 3:57 PM
9 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Fic­tion] Im­proved Gover­nance on the Crit­i­cal Path to AI Align­ment by 2045.

Jackson WagnerMay 18, 2022, 3:50 PM
20 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

RA Bounty: Look­ing for feed­back on screen­play about AI Risk

WriterOct 26, 2023, 2:27 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A Friendly Face (Another Failure Story)

Karl von WendtJun 20, 2023, 10:31 AM
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Is Civ­i­liza­tion on the Brink of Col­lapse? - Kurzgesagt

GabeMAug 16, 2022, 8:06 PM
33 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

AI Risk is like Ter­mi­na­tor; Stop Say­ing it’s Not

skluugMar 8, 2022, 7:17 PM
191 points
43 comments10 min readEA link
(skluug.substack.com)

How do fic­tional sto­ries illus­trate AI mis­al­ign­ment?

Vishakha AgrawalJan 15, 2025, 6:16 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(aisafety.info)

[Book rec] The War with the Newts as “EA fic­tion”

LizkaDec 22, 2021, 4:10 AM
67 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

A Sketch of AI-Driven Epistemic Lock-In

Ozzie GooenMar 5, 2025, 10:40 PM
13 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

Kat WoodsAug 15, 2022, 2:22 PM
80 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Why didn’t we turn it off? A cre­ative fic­tional story of AI takeover

Aaron_ScherMay 3, 2022, 2:13 PM
5 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Awak­en­ing the Ancestors

Patrick WilsonMay 30, 2022, 9:07 PM
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

The fu­ture of humanity

Dem0sthenesSep 1, 2022, 10:34 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Von­negut pas­sage on pur­pose, hu­man­ity, and machines

Darren McKeeMar 12, 2023, 12:47 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Aiming for heaven [short poem]

Ávila CarmesíMar 10, 2024, 6:14 AM
31 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Don’t Look Up—a Net­flix com­edy about as­ter­oid risk and re­al­is­tic so­cietal re­ac­tions (Dec. 24th)

LinchNov 18, 2021, 9:40 PM
63 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Em­manuela’s let­ter (2822)

3894hgwdAug 24, 2022, 5:59 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

Film Night: Don’t Look Up!

Group OrganizerMar 7, 2022, 12:20 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Film screen­ing: Don’t Look Up

Group OrganizerMar 24, 2022, 9:18 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

X-Risk Movie Club: Don’t Look Up

Group OrganizerDec 1, 2021, 4:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Writ­ing EA Fic­tion is Difficult: An After Ac­tion Review

WeaverJun 13, 2022, 2:49 PM
9 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Through Fiction

YitzJul 6, 2022, 5:23 AM
8 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

“Don’t Look Up” and the cin­ema of ex­is­ten­tial risk | Slow Boring

Eevee🔹Jan 5, 2022, 4:28 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.slowboring.com)

Movie re­view: Don’t Look Up

quinnDec 25, 2021, 6:57 AM
62 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

“The Physi­cists”: A play about ex­tinc­tion and the re­spon­si­bil­ity of scientists

Lara_THNov 29, 2022, 4:53 PM
28 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

[Question] A dataset for AI/​su­per­in­tel­li­gence sto­ries and other me­dia?

Marcel DMar 29, 2022, 9:41 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

I am a Me­moryless System

Nicholas / Heather KrossOct 23, 2022, 5:36 PM
4 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Fol­lowup on Terminator

skluugMar 12, 2022, 1:11 AM
32 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(skluug.substack.com)