by bdelnegro | Jun 7, 2021 | framing, risk
Final Project: Property Portfolio For our final project we created an architectural portfolio. Each of the residences included in the portfolio was designed in response to one of the existential crises covered in class. The project engages with the following...
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 jtello2 | Jun 6, 2021 | climate, policy, risk, salience
Link to the Paper! In this paper, I aimed to address the reasoning behind why policy implementation is such a complicated and lengthy process when dealing with climate change. Imagining a timescale for impending doom is difficult, and imagining a solution that holds...
by smshiffrin | Jun 5, 2021 | climate, framing, risk, solutions
For my final assignment, I chose to do a podcast in which I discuss three children’s movies that grapple with some of the existential issues we’ve discussed in class: The Lorax, WALL-E, and The Hunger Games. I got this idea from looking at the list of recommended...
by jcrary | Jun 5, 2021 | nuclear, policy, risk
General Concept: For the final project in this course, we designed a board game that we believe is both fun and demonstrates the risk that nuclear war and misinformation pose to society. This game involves three to six players, who can play as any of six countries...
by memerz | Jun 5, 2021 | climate, risk, salience
Link to my Op-Ed. In week 4, I wrote my memo starting from the idea that I have a difficult time conceptualizing of the existential threat which AI poses, particularly compared to the threat of nuclear armageddon and of climate change, which I find incredibly salient....
