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Interview with Francesco Femia, CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks
webTangentially relevant to AI safety through its focus on converging and systemic catastrophic risks; the Council on Strategic Risks framework for analyzing compounding threats has some methodological overlap with AI existential risk analysis.
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Scott Amyx interviews Francesco Femia, CEO of the Council on Strategic Risks and Co-Founder of the Center for Climate and Security, discussing the intersection of climate change and national security. Femia oversees efforts spanning climate security, strategic weapons, and converging risks analysis. The interview explores how environmental threats compound geopolitical and strategic risks.
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- •Francesco Femia leads the Council on Strategic Risks, which operates centers focused on climate security, strategic weapons, and converging/compounding risks.
- •The Center for Climate and Security examines how climate change functions as a threat multiplier for geopolitical instability and conflict.
- •Femia also serves as Senior Advisor to the International Military Council on Climate and Security, linking military planning with climate risk.
- •The interview is part of a broader 'Climate Change' podcast series by Scott Amyx exploring systemic and strategic dimensions of climate threats.
- •The Converging Risks Lab concept highlights the importance of analyzing how multiple catastrophic risks interact and amplify each other.
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