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Seth Baum

Seth Baum is executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, a nonprofit think tank that Baum co-founded in 2011. Baum’s research focuses on risk, ethics, and policy questions about major threats to human civilization, including nuclear war, global warming, and emerging technologies.

Articles by Seth Baum

What Trump means for global catastrophic risk

By Seth Baum | Climate Change, Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Tackling near and far AI threats at once

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Technology and Security

Japan should restart more nuclear power plants

By Seth Baum | Climate Change, Columnists, Nuclear Energy

A picture’s power to prevent

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Breaking down the risk of nuclear deterrence failure

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Should nuclear devices be used to stop asteroids?

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Is stratospheric geoengineering worth the risk?

By Seth Baum | Climate Change, Columnists, Technology and Security

Deterrence, without nuclear winter

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Stopping killer robots and other future threats

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Special Topics, Technology and Security

Support the Austria pledge

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear war, the black swan we can never see

By Seth Baum | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

The Lesson of Lake Toba

By Seth Baum | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Columnists, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, Technology and Security