The vulnerable world hypothesis or the "black ball" hypothesis refers to the idea that civilizations may likely be destroyed by some disruptive technologies...

selection effects and the Fermi paradox. In a paper called "The Vulnerable World Hypothesis", Bostrom suggests that there may be some technologies that destroy...

intelligence Friendly artificial intelligence Instrumental convergence Vulnerable world hypothesis Intelligence explosion Longtermism Machine ethics Suffering risks...

Retrieved 11 September 2022. Bostrom, Nick (6 September 2019). "The Vulnerable World Hypothesis". Global Policy. 10 (4): 455–476. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12718...

For example, an agent whose sole final goal is to solve the Riemann hypothesis (a famous unsolved mathematical conjecture) could create and act upon...

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

reasoning to identify the most effective ways to altruistically improve the world. This divergence comes primarily from one of the causes effective altruists...

Three intersecting global environmental crises Vulnerable world hypothesis – Existential risk concept World Scientists' Warning to Humanity – 1992 document...

also refers to the hypothesis that posits the existence of this stage. Alexander Rich first proposed the concept of the RNA world in 1962, and Walter...

blackmails), persuade people on a large scale, and exploit societal vulnerabilities that are too subtle for humans to anticipate. The word "robot" from...

catastrophes such as human extinction (which could be difficult if the Vulnerable World Hypothesis turns out to be true), it could take measures to drastically...

of the world, a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting. The End of the World (1916)...

Minsky once suggested that an AI program designed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis might end up taking over all the resources of Earth to build more powerful...

communication". tcworld.info. Bostrom, Nick (2019-09-06). "The Vulnerable World Hypothesis". Global Policy. 10 (4): 455–476. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12718...

approaching certainty about it as it gains more information about humans and the world. This uncertainty would, ideally, prevent catastrophic misunderstandings...

Retrieved 8 October 2020. Bostrom, Nick (November 2019). "The Vulnerable World Hypothesis". Global Policy. 10 (4): 455–476. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12718...

(2023-03-15). "OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2023-04-30. "Update on ARC's recent eval efforts:...

areas include robustness, monitoring, and alignment. AI systems are often vulnerable to adversarial examples or "inputs to machine learning (ML) models that...

who once suggested that an AI program designed to solve the Riemann Hypothesis might end up taking over all the resources of Earth to build more powerful...

based on publicly available information. In 2002, NTI partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a $500,000 rapid response fund for infectious...

In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects...

Predation Hypothesis says that as humans entered the New World they continued their policy of killing predators, which had been successful in the Old World but...

statistical hypothesis test is a method of statistical inference used to decide whether the data provide sufficient evidence to reject a particular hypothesis. A...

imaginary world using recogniseable techniques and real people." He wrote the novel over three years. The "odd-man hypothesis" is a hypothesis that states...

violence. In addition, according to the collective vulnerability hypothesis, shared experience of vulnerability and the loss of shared normative references can...

the August 1916 Treaty of Bucharest. Under the strategic plan known as Hypothesis Z, the Romanian army planned an offensive into Transylvania, while defending...

The Black Queen hypothesis (BQH) is a reductive evolution theory which seeks to explain how natural selection (as opposed to genetic drift) can drive gene...

The pollution haven hypothesis posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the...

terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: mortality salience causes existential anxiety that may be buffered by...

detectable technological civilizations. Another hypothesis in this category is the "Water World hypothesis". According to author and scientist David Brin:...