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– Avin, Shahar, Bonnie C. Wintle, Julius Weitzdörfer, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, William J. Sutherland, and Martin J. Rees. “Classifying Global Catastrophic Risks.” Futures 102 (2018): 20–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.02.001.
– Beard, Sj, Nathaniel Cooke, Sarah Dryhurst, et al. “Exploring Futures for the Science of Global Risk.” Futures 168 (2025): 103569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103569.
– Beard, Simon, Thomas Rowe, and James Fox. “An Analysis and Evaluation of Methods Currently Used to Quantify the Likelihood of Existential Hazards.” Futures 115 (2020): 102469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102469.
– Beard, Sj, Martin Rees, Catherine Richards, and Clarissa Rios Rojas, eds. The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies. 1st ed. Open Book Publishers (2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0336.
– Jehn, Florian Ulrich, John-Oliver Engler, Constantin W. Arnscheidt, et al. “The State of Global Catastrophic Risk Research: A Bibliometric Review.” Earth System Dynamics 16, no. 4 (2025): 1053–84. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-1053-2025.
– Moynihan, Thomas. “Existential Risk and Human Extinction: An Intellectual History.” Futures 116 (2020): 102495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2019.102495.
– Ord, Toby. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. New York: Hachette Books, 2020.
– Woods, Derek, and Joshua Schuster. Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
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– Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197–222. https://doi.org/10.1086/596640.
– Kareiva, Peter, and Valerie Carranza. “Existential Risk Due to Ecosystem Collapse: Nature Strikes Back.” Futures 102 (2018): 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.01.001.
– Schön, Julian, Lena Hoffmann, and Nikolas Becker. The Systemic Environmental Risks of Artificial Intelligence. Grant No.: 161S23075 (Project SERI). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) (2025). https://dl.gi.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/3daed86b-d50f-4301-b320-7c5e01bde158/content.
– Bengio, Yoshua, Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Yao, et al. “Managing Extreme AI Risks amid Rapid Progress.” Science 384, no. 6698 (2024): 842–45. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn0117.
– Bianchi, Federico, Amanda Cercas Curry, and Dirk Hovy. “Viewpoint: Artificial Intelligence Accidents Waiting to Happen?” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 76 (2023): 193–99. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.14263.
– Kasirzadeh, Atoosa. “Two Types of AI Existential Risk: Decisive and Accumulative.” Philosophical Studies 182, no. 7 (2025): 1975–2003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02301-3.
– Barbeschi, Maurizio. “A Global Catastrophic Biological Risk Is Not Just About Biology.” Health Security 15, no. 4 (2017): 349–50. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2017.0058.
– Freeman, Jeremy. “Existential Risk of Synthetic Biology: How Biological Engineering Can Help the World or Destroy It.” Journal of Student Research 12, no. 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i4.5129.
– Schoch-Spana, Monica, Anita Cicero, Amesh Adalja, et al. “Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: Toward a Working Definition.” Health Security 15, no. 4 (2017): 323–28. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2017.0038.
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