Sentences with phrase «catastrophic outcomes for»

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

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It's hard for kids to feel mentally strong when they're bombarding themselves with put - downs or when they're predicting catastrophic outcomes.

Given that Leave voters are already less distrustful of MPs, it would be catastrophic for trust in democracy if MPs ignored the referendum outcome.

Beyond preparing for the inevitable, the report also calls for climate mitigation, including implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement in order to have «any hope of avoiding catastrophic effects from sea - level rise and other outcomes of global warming.»

The outcomes for African Americans have been modest at best; catastrophic at worst.

The rationale for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide is to reduce the risk of the possibility of catastrophic outcomes.

I readily confess a lingering frustration: uncertainties so infuse the issue of climate change that it is still impossible to rule out either mild or catastrophic outcomes, let alone provide confident probabilities for all the claims and counterclaims made about environmental problems.

«Alarmism» encourages the idea that the case for relatively aggressive climate policy rests on the claim that climate change is more likely than not to produce catastrophic outcomes.

Update 28/3/12: It has been drawn to my attention that the 5 °C cutoff for an outcome to be labeled «catastrophic» was too conservative; that is, temperature increases considerably less than that would be associated with outcomes that most people would consider catastrophic.

You could use the «fat - tail» argument for presumably any potentially catastrophic outcome, e.g., bioterrorism, nuclear war, asteroid collision etc..

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.

The outcome for a victim can be catastrophic, and recovery — if possible — can take years.

Catching the problem early, rather than punishing the victim and covering it up, would result in a massive reduction in the potential for a catastrophic outcome.