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Submission to the Global Digital Compact on the interpretability of AI foundation models

April 26, 2023
As part of the UN’s Our Common Agenda, an intergovernmental process on digital governance has been put in place to produce the ‘Global…
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The FAIR Framework - A future-proofing methodology

April 26, 2023
Why future proofing? In the words of António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, “many of today’s multilateral frameworks are…
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How computers will continue to shape the world - Herbert A. Simon (video & transcript)

March 30, 2023
> “…I don’t believe that predicting the future is really what we’re about. After all, we ourselves, or at least the younger ones among us…
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Existential risk and rapid technological change - a thematic study for UNDRR

March 13, 2023
On 10th March 2022, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that: “(…) there is renewed pressure to consider whether global…
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Elements Paper for the Declaration on Future Generations

September 13, 2022
Future generations are fundamentally disempowered: they will inherit the planet and society we leave for them, yet they have no say in how…
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Input for High-Level Advisory Board Member Poonam Ghimire and the UN Foundation

August 26, 2022
In August 2022, SI was invited to contribute to two consultations held by the United Nations Foundation and High-Level Advisory Board member…
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How policymakers approach information overload and deep uncertainty - an interview analysis

August 15, 2022
What is it like to be a policymaker during the COVID-19 pandemic?  What might it be like during the next pandemic or another global crisis…
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Facilitation handbook - a tabletop exercise on resilience to global catastrophic risks

March 28, 2022
Strengthening science-policy capacity to mitigate Global Catastrophic Risks (GCRs) is difficult. As GCRs have not happened in the recent…
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United Nations for the future - a collection of key texts for long-term governance

July 01, 2021
With this collection, we highlight fertile ground for the refinement of a shared understanding of the long term, building on decades of diplomacy that have successfully made long-term flourishing a key motivation for international cooperation. It reminds us of the recency of international institutions, their hopeful vision and the work that remains to be done to secure long-term survival and flourishing.
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Setting expectations for global catastrophic risk mitigation through policy change

June 21, 2021
Our motivation for writing this post comes from observing an increasing number of calls for preparedness which require institutional paradigm shifts of the kind that is observed mostly on centennial scales. Many of the risks that humanity is currently facing seem more urgent. We hope to contribute to accelerating the adoption of a new preparedness paradigm by reviewing what we know about policy change.
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Building the field of long-term governance - SI’s approach

June 21, 2021
In conducting our work, we make choices about the questions we ask, modelling assumptions we make, which literature to rely on, etc. In this short piece, we make explicit the underlying beliefs that inform these decisions. By doing so, we hope to explain our approach, invite constructive criticism and live up to our standard of reasoning transparency.
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An overview of fields to improve decision-making in policy systems

June 21, 2021
At SI, we support international policy actors in dealing with uncertainty, complexity, time-pressure and global catastrophic risks. Below is a compilation of fields and resources we draw from and that might be valuable for others.
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