"We...declare our support for moving the existential risk community towards greater pluralism, and acknowledge our responsibility in trying to bring this about...We don’t wish to merely respect each other at a distance, but desire more active engagement, sharing ideas and disagreement with people from across the community, and empowerment of each other to take different approaches. We don’t merely wish for the perspectives of those of us with the most power to dominate, but rather to create a culture where a genuine proliferation of evidence-backed insights can occur. This requires support in many different forms from different actors in the community, which we are optimistic can happen; certainly, if we are to bring about a less endangered world, it must."
Statement on Pluralisms in Existential Risk Studies, 15th August 2023
As existential risk studies as a field has grown, there has become an increasing awareness of the need for greater pluralism in this field. This website primarily hosts one such call for pluralism, the Statement on Pluralisms in Existential Risk Studies, drawn up by a group of researchers who attendeed the FHI and CSER Workshop on Pluralisms in Existential Risk Studies on the 11th-14th May 2023.
This website also hopes to be a hub for the presentation of perspectives relevant to this mission of increasing pluralism in the field, and so also has resources and will hopefully publish blogs and host events on this theme. The signatories of the statement, however, do not necessarily endorse anything beyond the statement they signed.