climate change and what we can do about it
For my final project, I've decided to make a video on climate change. It pulls heavily from the work of David Wallace-Wells and is inspired by Carl Bergstrom's warnings about misinformation. It's only six minutes long, but...
Global Climate Change Impact Zones
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/157b9194ac87423d8d5d7526ba80cd2f The Earth has warmed about 1.36°C since the Industrial Revolution and current estimates predict that the Earth will warm another 1.5°C by 2050 (SOURCE). The 1.5°C (and sometimes even 2°C) figure is...
Were We Doomed? Will We Be Doomed?
By Olivia Gross, Lucy Horowitz, Isaiah Milbauer, and Gabe Moos The question “Are We Doomed?” has a historical lineage and a future trajectory that we aim to trace through the creation of three syllabi for “Are We Doomed” classes that respectively take place during the...
AI Chatbots: Can Social Control be Damaging?
OP-ED LINK: BPRO End of the World Chatbot Op-Ed For my final project, I decided to write an op-ed detailing some concerns about the integration of AI through chatbots. Since chatbots serve as a simulation of social interaction, I wanted to dive deep and discuss how...
Is UChicago doomed? Students Confronting the End of the World
WATCH MY DOCUMENTARY HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E3IpmgpGmGvY3TFH6D-d3QhOzEIwobEv/view?usp=sharing My documentary video, Is UChicago Doomed? Students Confronting the End of the World, puts average UChicago undergraduates under the spotlight. While...
Are We Doomed? UChicago Students’ Perspectives
For my Final Project, I created a video interviewing UChicago students on their perspectives on whether or not humanity is doomed. This video as a Panopto video is linked above and below and should also be embedded as a YouTube video below: ...
Short Story – Personal Experiences in a Dehumanized World
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...
Nuclear War Risk Index: A Standardized Doomsday Clock
For the very first lecture, we discussed the Doomsday Clock. The clock acts as a warning of how close we are to destruction. We analyzed the 2024 announcement of the doomsday clock and how it mentioned that the risk of nuclear extinction has been increased as Russia...
The U.S.’s Response to Climate Change: An Investigation of the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program
The U.S.’s Response to Climate Change An Investigation of the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program. In the research paper linked above, I aim to provide a thorough examination of the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program (primarily its Title 17...
Race Against the Doomsday Clock
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 play...