Start here:
- The long-term future (Jess Whittlestone, 2017)
- Existential risk prevention as global priority (Nick Bostrom, 2012)
- The vulnerable world hypothesis (Nick Bostrom, 2018)
- Are we living at the most influential time in history? (Will MacAskill, 2019)
- The Precipice (Toby Ord, 2020)
Further reading:
- The future of humanity (Nick Bostrom, 2007)
- Astronomical waste (Nick Bostrom, 2003)
- A proposed adjustment to the astronomical waste argument (Nick Beckstead, 2013)
- On the overwhelming importance of shaping the far future (Nick Beckstead, 2013)
- The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive (Jan Brauner and Friederike Grosse-Holz, 2018)
- The case for strong longtermism (Greaves and MacAskill, 2019)
- Managing existential risk from emerging technologies (Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord, 2014)
- Unprecedented technological risks (2014)
- Probing the improbable: methodological challenges for risks with low probabilities and high stakes (Toby Ord, Rafaela Hillerbrand and Anders Sandberg, 2010)
- The case for reducing extinction risk (Ben Todd, 2017)
- Why might the future be good? (Paul Christiano)
- Existential risk and existential hope (Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord, 2015)
- The moral value of the far future (Karnofsky, 2014)
- Differential intellectual progress as a positive-sum project (Tomasik, 2013)
- If the future is big (Robin Hanson, 2018)
What about The Precipice?
Yes, good point. Added.
Maybe a few on s-risks, which are not only of concern for those with suffering-focused views? These might be good places to start:
https://longtermrisk.org/risks-of-astronomical-future-suffering/
https://longtermrisk.org/reducing-risks-of-astronomical-suffering-a-neglected-priority/
https://longtermrisk.org/altruists-should-prioritize-artificial-intelligence/