Week 4 - Deep dive into existential risk and longtermist cause areas

Description: This week, we’re diving deeper into risks to our survival and to our possibility of having a flourishing future. You will once again choose cause areas, and share your learnings with the group. Make sure to take notes!

Pick 2-3 articles

• Preventing an AI-related catastrophe  (52 min.)

• Preventing catastrophic pandemics (24 min.)

• S-risks (10 min.)

• Great power war (49 min.)

• Nuclear weapons (37 min.)

• Climate change  (37 min.)

• Space governance (30 min.)

Write down your reflections on the readings and exercise(s) in the box below

Some prompts: 

• Which problem do you think poses the greatest threat to our survival and a flourishing future? What should we prioritise? Why?

So we’ve been talking about the idea that we and everyone we know could die in a catastrophe. That’s pretty intense. How do you feel about it, what are your emotional reactions to it?