--- title: Otto Barten | TIME description: Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate. canonical: https://time.com/author/otto-barten/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/otto-barten/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Otto Barten ## Otto Barten _Otto Barten is director of the_ [_Existential Risk Observatory_](https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/)_, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate._ ## Otto Barten *  Nov 15, 2024 ### [There Is a Solution to AI's Existential Risk Problem](https://time.com/7171432/conditional-ai-safety-treaty-trump/) A Conditional AI Safety Treaty can help prevent runaway AI and President-elect Trump should embrace ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 16, 2024 ### [How to Hit Pause on AI](https://time.com/6978790/how-to-pause-artificial-intelligence/) The time bomb that is AI isn't as hard to stop as many think, while we better understand its civiliz... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 20, 2023 ### [An AI Pause Is Humanity's Best Bet For Preventing Extinction](https://time.com/6295879/ai-pause-is-humanitys-best-bet-for-preventing-extinction/) Constantly improving AI would create a positive feedback loop: an intelligence explosion. We would b... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 27, 2023 ### [Why Uncontrollable AI Looks More Likely Than Ever](https://time.com/6258483/uncontrollable-ai-agi-risks/) Even if future AI could be aligned with human values, it remains an open question whose values it wo... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/otto-barten/","name":"Otto Barten"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/otto-barten/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/otto-barten/"},"name":"Otto Barten","jobTitle":null,"description":"Otto Barten is director of the Existential Risk Observatory, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate.","url":"https://time.com/author/otto-barten/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```