Update: Here's the video of Toby's session.
As he did last year, Toby Ord will be answering questions submitted by community members during one of the main sessions at EA Global: Reconnect.
Submit your questions here by 11:59 pm PDT on Thursday, March 18, or vote for the questions you most want Toby to answer.
About Toby
Toby Ord is a moral philosopher at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute and the author of The Precipice.
Toby’s work focuses on the big-picture questions facing humanity: What are the most important issues of our time? And how can we best address them? His current research is on avoiding the threat of human extinction, which he considers to be among the most pressing and neglected issues we face.
His earlier work explored the ethics of global health and global poverty, which led him to create Giving What We Can, whose members have pledged hundreds of millions of pounds to the most effective charities helping to improve the world. He also co-founded the wider effective altruism movement.
He has advised the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet Office, and Government Office for Science. His work has been featured more than a hundred times in the national and international media.
In The Precipice, you shared a personal estimate of the total risk of existential disaster in the next 100 years at ⅙.
What odds would you put on a catastrophe that leads us to record more than 500 million human deaths in a 12 month period before 2120?
Context: Our World in Data suggest that from 1950-present, 50-60 million people died each year. They estimate the number will be in the 60-120 million range up to 2100.