Media Coverage

Open-Minded Conversation May Be Our Best Bet for Survival in the 21st Century A Conversation with Lord Martin Rees by TechEmergence, March 20, 2016
Mega-risks that could drive us to extinction New Scientist, 26 November 2012
Meet the Co-Founder of an Apocalypse Think Tank Interview with Martin Rees by Scientific American
Martin Rees on Night Waves BBC Radio Three, 5 December 2012 (interview begins around 11:50)
Astronomer Royal: If we find aliens, they will be machines by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph, June 6, 2015
Centre to study technology risks to humans The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 26 November, 2012
Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat? by Angela Chen, the Chronicle of Higher Education, September 11, 2014
Vatican presses politicians on climate change by Roger Harrabin, BBC News, 28 April 2015
Humanity’s last invention and our uncertain future Research News, University of Cambridge, 25 November 2012
Asteroid Day tries to save life as we know it by Robin McKie, The Gardian, 13 June 2015
Cambridge to study technology’s risk to humans by Sylvia Hui, Associated Press, 25 November 2012
Meet the people out to stop humanity from destroying itself by Kabir Chibber, Quartz, May 11, 2015
What will happen to the humans when science fiction becomes fact? by Nick Bilton, The Irish Times, May 28, 2015
Our science-fiction apocalypse: Meet the scientists trying to predict the end of the world by Aaron Labaree, Salon, October 5, 2014
Apocalypse soon: the scientists preparing for the end times This New Statesman article is a good introduction to the existential risk research community and the people involved in it. (10 August 2014)