Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: Toward a Working Definition

Global Catastrophic Biological Risks: Toward a Working Definition

This paper seeks to define criteria for a Global Catastrophic Biological Risk, or GCBR, which was previously defined as an event with the potential to produce tens to hundreds of millions of fatalities, alter the long term trajectory of humanity, or cause the extinction of humanity as a whole.

2017

Areas that constitute potential future GCBRs include targeted population threats, novel strains of known contagious pathogens, widespread eradication of food sources, and novel or artificial organisms harmful to existing life.