7th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research

23-25 June 2021, online

Topic

Global priorities research investigates the question, ‘What should we do with our limited resources, if our goal is to do the most good?’ This question has close connections with central issues in philosophy and economics, among other fields.

This event will focus on the following two areas of global priorities research:

1. The longtermism paradigm. Longtermism claims that, because of the potential vastness of the future of sentient life, agents aiming to do the most good should focus on improving the very long-run future, rather than on more immediate considerations. We are interested in articulating, considering arguments for and against, and exploring the implications of this longtermist thesis.
2. General issues in cause prioritisation. We will also host talks on various cause prioritisation issues not specific to longtermism - for instance, issues in  decision theory, epistemology, game theory and optimal timing/optimal stopping theory.

These two categories of topics are elaborated in more detail in Sections 1 and 2 (respectively) of GPI’s research agenda.

Schedule

The workshop is expected to run from 3pm to 6pm UK time (BST, UTC+1) each day. Detailed schedules and more details of previous workshops can be found on the links below.

• 1st Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research (with a focus on longtermism)
• 2nd Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research
• 3rd Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research (the second day of this event was a one-day workshop on predicting and influencing the far future)
• 4th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research (cancelled)
• 5th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research
• 6th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research

Attending the workshop

You can apply to attend the 7th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research by completing this form no later than 23 May 2021.