Building Leadership Skills to Foresee, Prevent, and Manage Existential and Catastrophic Risks

Harvard HKS

In the 21st century, leaders across the world and in multiple sectors face an expanding array of existential and catastrophic risks. Some are long-standing and well known, such as nuclear proliferation; others are novel and rapidly developing, such as AI-enabled biological threats. Policy makers must be able to identify, prevent, and manage these challenges despite uncertainty about their full potential, the absence of complete or reliable information, and the pressures of domestic…