Publications: Preventing Human Extinction ~ Planetary Health
Medical Impacts of Thermobaric Weapons: A Scoping Review | Aparna Cheran, Anika Gnaedinger, Ari Tolany, Eunice Obi, Serhii Tertyshnyii, Amila Ratnayake, Ahmed Mokhallalati, Hailemariam Eyayaw Mitiku, Teresa Jewell, Christopher LeBoa, Paul Amoroso, Arthur Van Coller, Hannah B H Wild | Military Medicine | September 15, 2025
Validating and Comparing Energy Estimation Methods at Water Resource Recovery Facilities | Abigayle Rose Hodson, Sahar Head El Abbadi, Rania Lachhab, Xiatong Li, Zhiyong Jason Ren, Christopher M Chini, Jennifer R. Stokes-Draut | Earth ArXiv | August 24, 2025
Powering the Future: Policies to Advance Equitable Clean Cooking Access for Health, Well-Being, and Climate | Annelise Gill Wiehl, Ajay Pillarisetti, Laura H Kwong, Misbath Daouda, Daniel M Kammen, Thomas Clasen | Environmental Science & Technology Letters | July 31, 2025
Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study | Sumaiya Tazin, Mahfuza Islam, Amy J Pickering, Laura H Kwong, Andrew Mertens, Caitlin Niven, Benjamin F Arnold, Alan E Hubbard, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Ayse Ercumen | The Lancet Planetary Health | July 30, 2025
Flooding and elevated prenatal depression in rural Bangladesh: A mixed methods study | Suhi Hanif, Jannat-E-Tajreen Momo, Farjana Jahan, Liza Goldberg, Natalie Herbert, Afsana Yeamin, Abul Kasham Shoab, Reza Mostary Akhter, Sajal Kumar Roy, Gabriella Barratt Heitmann, Ayse Ercumen, Mahbubur Rahman, Fahmida Tofail, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Jade Benjamin-Chung | PLOS Global Public Health | July 21, 2025
“Then electricity theft would end, nobody loves stealing”: Community-based solutions for improving electricity access in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda | Jessica Kersey, Civian Kiki Massa, Judith Mbabazi, Paul Kyoma Asiimwe, Lydia Letaru, Michael Jurua, Bluenza Sirezi, June Lukuyu, Elena van Hove, Peter Mwesiga, Jay Taneja, Nathan G. Johnson, Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Daniel M. Kammen, Laura H. Kwong | Energy Research & Social Science | May 25, 2025
The Power to Kill Life Itself: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics, and the Political Challenge of Human Extinction | Daniel P. Zimmer | Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Core: Perspectives on Politics | March 20, 2025
Powering Health with Energy in Low-and Middle-Income Countries | Laura H Kwong, Robert Bailis, Misbath Daouda, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Rose Mutiso, Ajay Pillarisetti, Joshua Rosenthal, Rebekah Shirley, Shu Tao, Daniel M. Kammen, Thomas Clasen | Social Science Research Network | March 11, 2025
Reliable Electricity to Advance Quality Healthcare | Salvatore Vinci, Laura H Kwong, Samuel Miles, Ryan McCord, Gina Cady, Kun Tang, Wenlu Ye, Harish Hande, Bineta Mbacke, Heather Adair-Rohani, Daniel M. Kammen | Social Science Research Network | March 11, 2025
Synthesizing the Evidence Base to Enhance Coordination between Humanitarian Mine Action and Emergency Care for Casualties of Explosive Ordnance and Explosive Weapons: A Scoping Review | Hannah Wild, Christopher LeBoa, Nikolaos Markou-Pappas, Micah Trautwein, Loren Persi, Christelle Loupforest, Elke Hottentot, Emilie Calvello Hynes, Jack Denny, Firoz Alizada, Reykhan Muminova, Teresa Jewell, Sebastian Kasack, Stacey Pizzino, Gregory Hynes, Lina Echeverri, Flavio Salio, Sherry M Wren, Charles Mock, Adam L Kushner, Barclay T Stewart | Prehospital and Disaster Medicine | January 24, 2025
Adolescent Psychological Health Under Chronic Climate Change-Related Stress: A Mixed-Methods Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh | Liza Goldberg, Stephen Luby, Noshin Sayiara Shuchi, Titly Sen, Nazmul Hossen, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Erik G. Jensen, Nicole M. Ardoin, Mahbubur Rahman, Farjana Jahan | Preprint: The Lancet: SSRN | December 4, 2024
Risking Escalation for the Sake of Efficiency: Ethical Implications of AI Decision-Making in Conflicts | Max Lamparth | Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | July 30, 2024
TomOpt: Differential optimisation for task- and constraint-aware design of particle detectors in the context of muon tomography | Giles C Strong ... Max Lamparth ... | Machine Learning: Science and Technology | July 3, 2024
Analyzing and Editing Inner Mechanisms of Backdoored Language Models | Max Lamparth, Anka Reuel | ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT'24) | June 5, 2024
Escalation Risks from Language Models in Military and Diplomatic Decision-Making | Juan-Pablo Rivera ... Max Lamparth | ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT'24) | June 5, 2024
An interdisciplinary review of systemic risk factors leading up to existential risks | Trond Arne Undheim | Progress in Disaster Science | April 30, 2024
Why the Military Can't Trust AI: Large Language Models can make bad decisions - and could trigger nuclear war. | Max Lamparth, Jacquelyn Schneider | Foreign Affairs | April 29, 2024
Navigating the Complexities of Existential Risk: Insights from the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference | Gabriella Ermanni | Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation | April 4, 2024
The 2024 Stanford Existential Risks Conference | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | April 2, 2024
Dyadic risk mechanisms–a nomenclature for 36 proto-cascading effects determining humanity’s future | Trond Arne Undheim | European Journal of Futures Research | March 26, 2024
In search of better methods for the longitudinal assessment of tech-derived X-risks: How five leading scenario planning efforts can help | Trond Arne Undheim | Technology in Society | March 17, 2024
Quantitative scenarios for cascading risks in AI, climate, synthetic bio, and financial markets by 2075 | Trond Arne Undheim | Frontiers in Complex Systems | March 15, 2024
The whack-a-mole governance challenge for AI-enabled synthetic biology: literature review and emerging frameworks | Trond Arne Undheim | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | February 28, 2024
Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war | Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | February 11, 2024
Toward the end-to-end optimization of particle physics instruments with differentiable programming | Tommaso Dorigo ... Max Lamparth ... | Review in Physics | June 2023
A Call to Action for Gender Equity in Climate Leadership | Britt Wray, Erika M. Veidis, Elaine C. Flores, Allison A. Phillips, Ola Alani, and Michele Barry | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | May 1, 2023
Intersections, Reinforcements, Cascades: Proceedings of the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference | Daniel Zimmer, Trond Arne Undheim, Paul N. Edwards, eds. | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | April 20-22, 2023: Intro, Table of Contents
Kainos Anthropos: Existential Precarity And Human Universality in the Earth System Anthropocene | Daniel Zimmer | New Frontiers | January 1, 2023
The Immanent Apocalypse: Humanity and the Ends of the World | Daniel P. Zimmer | Cornell University | August 2022
The biosecurity benefits of genetic engineering attribution | Gregory Lewis, Jacob L. Jordan, David A. Relman, Gregory D. Koblentz, Jade Leung, Allan Dafoe, Cassidy Nelson, Gerald L. Epstein, Rebecca Katz, Michael Montague, Ethan C. Alley, Claire Marie Filone, Stephen Luby, George M. Church, Piers Millett, Kevin M. Esvelt, Elizabeth E. Cameron, Thomas V. Inglesby | Nature Communications | December 8, 2020
Addressing Climate Change and Its Effects on Human Health: A Call to Action for Medical Schools | Goshua, Anna; Gomez, Jason; Erny, Barbary MD; Burke, Marshall PhD; Luby, Stephen MD; Sokolow, Susanne DVM, PhD; LaBeaud, A. Desiree MD; Auerbach, Paul MD; Gisondi, Michael A. MD; Nadeau, Kari MD, PhD | Academic Medicine | November 24, 2020
Planetary health approaches for dry cities: water quality and heat mitigation | Tony H. F. Wong, Nigel J. Tapper, Stephen P. Luby | British Medical Journal | November 16, 2020
Adaptive social contact rates induce complex dynamics during epidemics | Ronan F. Arthur, James H. Jones, Matthew H. Bonds, Yoav Ram, Marcus W. Feldman | bioRxiv | April 14, 2020
Risk and Response to Biological Catastrophe in Lower Income Countries | Stephen Luby, Ronan Arthur | Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: Global Catastrophic Biological Risks | May 25, 2019