Toby Ord

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 644 citations indexed

About

Toby Ord is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Toby Ord has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 644 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 5 papers in Philosophy and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Toby Ord's work include Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (4 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (3 papers). Toby Ord is often cited by papers focused on Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (4 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (3 papers). Toby Ord collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Sweden. Toby Ord's co-authors include Nick Bostrom, William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Anders Sandberg, Tien D. Kieu, H. R. G. Greaves, Michael B. Bonsall, Alan Blair and Miqdad Asaria and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, The Journal of Philosophy and Applied Mathematics and Computation.

In The Last Decade

Toby Ord

20 papers receiving 552 citations

Hit Papers

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    2020 216 citations Toby Ord profile →

Peers

Toby Ord
Jesper Ryberg Denmark
Tim Mulgan New Zealand
Peter Vallentyne United States
F. M. Kamm United States
Angela Potochnik United States
Larry S. Temkin United States
Seana Valentine Shiffrin United States
Torsten Wilholt Germany
Luc Bovens United Kingdom
H. R. G. Greaves United Kingdom
Jesper Ryberg Denmark
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Fields of papers citing papers by Toby Ord

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toby Ord

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All Works

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MacAskill, William, et al.. (2020). Statistical Normalization Methods in Interpersonal and Intertheoretic Comparisons. The Journal of Philosophy. 117(2). 61–95. 9 indexed citations
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MacAskill, William, Krister Bykvist, & Toby Ord. (2020). Moral Uncertainty. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 62 indexed citations
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Cookson, Richard, et al.. (2020). Quality adjusted life years based on health and consumption: A summary wellbeing measure for cross‐sectoral economic evaluation. Health Economics. 30(1). 70–85. 9 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby, et al.. (2019). An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11054–11054. 11 indexed citations
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MacAskill, William, Andreas L. Mogensen, & Toby Ord. (2018). Giving Isn’t Demanding. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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MacAskill, William & Toby Ord. (2018). Why Maximize Expected Choice‐Worthiness?1. Noûs. 54(2). 327–353. 40 indexed citations
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Greaves, H. R. G. & Toby Ord. (2017). Moral Uncertainty About Population Axiology. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 12(2). 135–167. 13 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2015). A New Counterexample to Prioritarianism. Utilitas. 27(3). 298–302. 6 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2015). Moral Trade. Ethics. 126(1). 118–138. 4 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby, Rafaela Hillerbrand, & Anders Sandberg. (2010). Probing the improbable: methodological challenges for risks with low probabilities and high stakes. Journal of Risk Research. 13(2). 191–205. 39 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2008). The Scourge: Moral Implications of Natural Embryo Loss. The American Journal of Bioethics. 8(7). 12–19. 49 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2008). How To Be a Consequentialist About Everything. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2008). Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Scourge: Moral Implications of Natural Embryo Loss”. The American Journal of Bioethics. 8(7). W1–W3. 1 indexed citations
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Bostrom, Nick & Toby Ord. (2006). The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics. Ethics. 116(4). 656–679. 123 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby. (2005). The many forms of hypercomputation. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 178(1). 143–153. 24 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby & Tien D. Kieu. (2005). The Diagonal Method and Hypercomputation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 56(1). 147–156. 16 indexed citations
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Ord, Toby & Tien D. Kieu. (2004). Using biased coins as oracles. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 5. 253–265.
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Ord, Toby & Tien D. Kieu. (2002). On the existence of a new family of Diophantine equations for Ω. Fundamenta Informaticae. 56(3). 273–284. 8 indexed citations

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