Risk factors for s-risks

Abstract

Various factors can make potential existential risks more likely or severe, increasing the potential for great suffering. Such risk factors include advanced technological capabilities, the lack of efforts to prevent existential risks, inadequate security and law enforcement, polarization and divergence of values, or combinations thereof. For instance, advanced technology could magnify human suffering if civilization expands into space and multiply sentient beings capable of suffering. Efforts to mitigate these risks are crucial, especially when considering transformative technologies like powerful artificial intelligence. – AI-generated abstract.