Huw Price led a workshop titled “Towards A New Science of Existential Risk”, as part of the “Evidence, Ideology, and Orthodoxy: Science in the University and the Public Sphere” conference at Arizona State University on the 6th-8th of February. The workshop investigated efforts to establish new approaches to studying existential threats. The event was co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
“This session will investigate efforts to establish new approaches to studying ‘existential threat’ – it will ask what sort of science can make sense of such questions and with what sort of engagement with wider