{"id":212971,"date":"2025-05-01T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/humanitys-final-four-years-with-james-norris"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:04:20","slug":"humanitys-final-four-years-with-james-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/humanitys-final-four-years-with-james-norris","title":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s final four years? with James Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVGs8bgr6-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we return to the subject of existential risks, but with a focus on what actions can be taken to eliminate or reduce these risks.<\/p>\n<p>Our guest is James Norris, who describes himself on his website as an existential safety advocate. The website lists four primary organizations which he leads: the International AI Governance Alliance, Upgradable, the Center for Existential Safety, and Survival Sanctuaries.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, one of James\u2019 many successful initiatives was Effective Altruism Global, the international conference series for effective altruists. He also spent some time as the organizer of a kind of sibling organization to London Futurists, namely Bay Area Futurists. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a triple major in psychology, sociology, and philosophy, as well as with minors in too many subjects to mention.<\/p>\n<p>Selected follow-ups:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 James Norris website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesnorris.org\/\">https:\/\/www.jamesnorris.org\/<\/a>)<br \/> \u2022 Upgrade your life &amp; legacy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upgradable.org\/\">https:\/\/www.upgradable.org\/<\/a>) \u2014 Upgradable.<br \/> \u2022 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklincovey.com\/courses\">https:\/\/www.franklincovey.com\/courses<\/a>\u2026 (Stephen Covey)<br \/> \u2022 Beneficial AI 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/event\/bai-2017\/\">https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/event\/bai-2017\/<\/a>) \u2014 Asilomar conference.<br \/> \u2022 \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we return to the subject of existential risks, but with a focus on what actions can be taken to eliminate or reduce these risks. Our guest is James Norris, who describes himself on his website as an existential safety advocate. The website lists four primary organizations which he leads: the International AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1759,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-governance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}