Cyber Developments and the Environment
Read our Op-Ed here! For our final project, our group was really interested in the intersection between the realm of digitization and its effects on the environment. Recently, our world has increasingly developed new technology that will radically change the way we...
Final Debate: Battle of the Threats
AWD Final Debate: Battle of the Threats Have you ever watched a presidential debate? In the months leading up to this past election (or in any cycles previous), did you feel overwhelmed, irritated, or downright angry after listening to 60 minutes of incoherent...
The 20% Podcast: Why We Might not Actually be Doomed
For this project, we wanted to take a new spin on the material we learned about in class. We have learned so much about the existential threats we face now, and we thought a new way to engage with the material was to spin the class material in a positive way. We...
Securing Humanity’s Future: Reorienting U.S. Policy to Address Existential Risks
Securing Humanity’s Future: Reorienting U.S. Policy to Address Existential Risks By Bryce Farabaugh Humanity in the 21st century is poised to face an unprecedented number of risks that previous generations did not have to face, and its ability to address these risks...
An Overview of India’s Current and Future Sources of Energy Generation
Names: Lance Johnson, Dillon Ramlochun, Ishaan Patel and Chase Denholm Project Format: Research Paper (Link to Paper included at end of Blog Post) An Overview of India's Current and Future Sources of Energy Generation (Blog Post) For our final project, our team...
The Doomsday Clock: A New START
A quote from Oppenheimer, an architect of the first atomic bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac "At precisely 5:29 A.M. on July 16, 1945, a bright flash sharply pierced the early New Mexico morning. As a mushroom cloud rose from the resulting crater,...
Judging Robots
This is a research project about whether and to what extent human judges can be replaced by artificial intelligence. I argue that there are applications of the technology that can better serve the purposes of the judiciary than the system we currently have, and that...
AI Artists: Training My Replacement
AI Artists: Training My Replacement Adriana Zavala Introduction and Motivation: For my project I wanted to tackle the threat of AI takeover from the point of view of a digital artist. In my original proposal, I was going to create a digital work of art that...
Doom in Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
My final project is a video essay on the Japanese anime Psycho-Pass: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rCfX8GAJN0r4nXgKsQFFe5s8eXrZH-f/view?usp=sharing For my final project, I knew that I wanted to analyze a future imaginary in conversation with the themes from our...
doomed stardust?
We all started as stardust. Our beginnings were mystical and full of hope. Now, what happens as we approach doom? These existential threats are all of a result of human actions. Are we smart enough to fix our own mistakes before it is too late? Or are we doomed...