by summerliu | Mar 4, 2024 | cyber, emerging, framing
My short story aims to portray individual responses in an AI-controlled world and emphasize the destruction of what we now consider essential everyday experiences. One of the most common fears in AI takeover scenarios is that AI will ruthlessly butcher humanity or...
by cbgravitt | Mar 4, 2024 | bio, climate, cyber, nuclear, policy, risk
Race Against the Doomsday Clock By Charlie Gravitt, Lawton Bauer, and Miles Brown Download (Windows and Linux only): Windows version Linux Version If those don’t work, try to access it via UChicago box at this link, and see the bottom of this post for how to...
by miansimmons | Mar 3, 2024 | bio, climate, cyber, framing, nuclear
Fermi’s Fate: A Game of Existential Gambits By Mia Simmons, Aidan Jones, Audrey Scott, and Daniela Chen We created a board game called “Fermi’s Fate: A Game of Existential Gambits” that contextualizes the existential risks covered in class, educating players and...
by kelleherjt | Jun 28, 2021 | bio, climate, cyber, nuclear, salience
By Janet and Jane Tunde Kelleher Introduction & Motivation: Poll after poll, potential crisis after potential crisis, the class concurred that, on our current trajectory, humanity is doomed, and that societal transformation has the most promise to avert such...
by yumingl | Jun 6, 2021 | climate, cyber, nuclear, origin, risk
Blog of Yehong: Our story started with a simple idea: if an artificial intelligence went rogue and created cyber-enabled information chaos, how would humanity end? Hence, the prototype of the story was that two ambitious capitalists decided to develop an artificial...
by shiruan | Jun 5, 2021 | bio, cyber
Infodemic: Disinformation Campaign, Decentralized Propaganda and Reactive Authoritarianism Ruanzhenghao “Shiruan” SHI My final project is a research proposal with my preliminary findings and analyses. I plan to probe into the disinformation campaign mobilized...
