In July 2008 the Future of Humanity Institute hosted a number of leading experts on different global catastrophic risks. The conference provided delegates with an overview of the key risks, and the state of current thinking on each of them. It brought scholars together from many different disciplines to discuss the common problems and methodologies which affect the study of global catastrophic risks.

Latest episodes of the podcast Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

• Biotechnology and Biosecurity
• Introduction to the Global Catastrophes Risk Conference 2008
• Probing the Improbable
• Expected and unexpected in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature
• Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction
• Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe
• Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases