Preventing the apocalypse may sound like an idiosyncratic activity, and it sometimes is justified on exotic grounds, such as the potential for humanity to become a galaxy-spanning civilisation.| 80,000 Hours
We can be the generation that helps cause the end of everything, or navigates humanity through its most dangerous period.| 80,000 Hours
Toby Ord suggests that humanity faces a 3% risk of existential catastrophe from biological causes in the next 100 years. I review Ord's arguments and argue that they are insufficient to ground this estimate.| Reflective altruism
Are we prepared for the next pandemic? Pandemics — and biological risks like bioterrorism or biological weapons — pose an existential threat to humanity.| 80,000 Hours