The Stockholm-based Global Challenges “New Shape” competition, which attracted 2,702 entrants from 122 countries, aimed to promote new ideas for the governance of global catastrophic risks. Here I tell the story of my role as one of 14 eventual finalists. It is a story of ideas — ideas that formed the background, ideas that emerged in the course of the finals, and ideas about how we might take things forward in the future. As Sir William Bragg put it in his famous introduction to The Double Helix (Watson 1967), this is not a history, but an autobiographical contribution to the history that may someday be written.
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