Democratizing Risk and EA with Carla Zoe Cremer and Luke Kemp

In this episode, Carla and Luke discuss their paper Democratising Risk which lays out their critiques of the field of existential risk. They argue that the field is dominated by a particular paradigm, the Techno-Utopian Approach (TUA), which is unrepresentative of the general public's values, and may even lead to a higher risk of large scale catastrophes.

We also discuss the possible structural reforms that the EA community could make to make decision making more democratic and less centralized.

Full transcript of the episode is here.

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Other Links:

• If you have never heard about EA here is a good place to start.
• Sam Bankman Fried and the FTX Collapse
• Democratising Risk: In Search of a Methodology to Study Existential Risk
• Democratising Risk - or how EA deals with critics
• EA structural reform ideas
• How effective altruists ignored risk
• Learn more about our guests:
  • Carla's Personal Website
  • Luke's Twitter
• The EA community does not own its donors' money - A EA Forum post made after this conversation was recorded arguing against some of Carla's structural reform proposals.
• Guest Recommendations: 
  • Chaos Computer Club
  • Extinction Rebellion
  • Hélène Landemore
  • James C Scott