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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

University of Cambridge

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1.

The Most Dangerous Fiction: The Rhetoric and Reality of the AI Race

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2026
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge
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AI race, AI safety, AI governance, AI geopolitics, US-China geopolitics, AGI, artificial general intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotization

Robin Geiß and Nils Melzer (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020
Martina Kunz and Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge, Students and University of Cambridge
Downloads 676 (96,026)
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international law, artificial intelligence, robotics, global security

3.

An AI Race for Strategic Advantage: Rhetoric and Risks

AAAI / ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics And Society 2018
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Sep 2019
Stephen Cave and Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge - Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and University of Cambridge
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artificial intelligence, risk, rhetoric, narratives, policy, international governance, international relations

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The State of Research in Existential Risk

Catastrophic and Existential Risk: Proceedings of the First Colloquium, sponsored by The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (2017)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Sep 2019
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge
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existential risk, global catastrophic risk, biosecurity, systemic risk, nuclear risk, climate change, artificial intelligence

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Technological Wild Cards: Existential Risk and a Changing Humanity

In The Next Step: Augmented Humans and Exponential Life. BBVA Open Mind, 28 March 2017.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Sep 2019
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge
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artificial intelligence, climate change, global population, existential risk, global catastrophic risk, systemic risk

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When the chips are down: Technology actors as power brokers in the US-China 'AI Race'

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 May 2026
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Yi-Ling Liu, Coleman Snell and Shakeel Hashim
University of Cambridge, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - College of Arts & Sciences and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Artificial intelligence, geopolitics, technology policy, US-China relations, U.S. Lobbying

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Would You Hand Over a Decision to a Machine?

In Edmonds, D (Editor), Philosophers Take On The World, Oxford University Press, 26 September 2016.
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2020
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
University of Cambridge
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Artificial intelligence, AI, decision-making, risk, uncertainty, bias