Olle Häggström

Full Professor at Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Olle Häggström is a professor of mathematical statistics. The bulk of his research qualifications are in probability theory, but in recent years he has redirected much of his attention to futurology, existential risk, AI safety and related topics.

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2022

Artificial General Intelligence and the Common Sense Argument

Olle Häggström
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Vol. 63, p. 155-160
Book chapter
2022

What Are the Chances of That? How to Think About Uncertainty

Olle Häggström
Mathematical Intelligencer. Vol. In press
Other text in scientific journal
2021

Chess as a testing grounds for the oracle approach to AI safety

James D. Miller, Roman V. Yampolskiy, Olle Häggström et al
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 2916
Paper in proceeding
2021

Aspects of Mind Uploading

Olle Häggström
Cognitive Technologies, p. 3-20
Book chapter
2020

An AGI Modifying Its Utility Function in Violation of the Strong Orthogonality Thesis

James D. Miller, Roman Yampolskiy, Olle Häggström
Philosophies. Vol. 5 (4)
Journal article
2019

Long-term trajectories of human civilization

Seth D. Baum, Stuart Armstrong, Timoteus Ekenstedt et al
Foresight. Vol. 21 (11), p. 53-83
Journal article
2019

Guest editorial: Existential risk to humanity

Olle Häggström, Catherine Rhodes
Foresight. Vol. 21 (1), p. 1-3
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2019

Challenges to the Omohundro-Bostrom framework for AI motivations

Olle Häggström
Foresight. Vol. 21 (1), p. 153-166
Journal article
2019

Water transport on infinite graphs

Timo Hirscher, Olle Häggström
Random Structures and Algorithms. Vol. 54 (3), p. 515-527
Journal article
2018

Thinking in advance about the last algorithm we ever need to invent

Olle Häggström
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs. Vol. 110
Paper in proceeding
2017

The Need for Nuance in the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Debate

Olle Häggström
Educational and Psychological Measurement. Vol. 77 (4), p. 616-630
Journal article
2017

Fermi's paradox, Extraterrestrial Life and the Future of Humanity: a Bayesian Analysis

Vilhelm Verendel, Olle Häggström
International Journal of Astrobiology. Vol. 16 (1), p. 14-18
Journal article
2016

Reply to "Volcanic effects on climate"

Daniel Johansson, Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi et al
Nature Climate Change. Vol. 6 (1), p. 4-5
Other text in scientific journal
2016

Mathematics awareness month: The future of prediction

L.R. Goldberg, Olle Häggström, C. Ciliberto et al
Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 63 (4), p. 352-356
Other text in scientific journal
2015

Equilibrium climate sensitivity in light of observations over the warming hiatus

Daniel Johansson, Brian O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi et al
Nature Climate Change. Vol. 5 (5), p. 449-453
Journal article
2014

En ren kontrollfråga

Olle Häggström
Axess (6)
Magazine article
2014

Symbolic Reasoning with Bounded Cognitive Resources

Claes Strannegård, Abdul Rahim Nizamani, Fredrik Engström et al
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
Paper in proceeding
2014

Lord's Paradox in a Continuous Setting and a Regression Artifact in Numerical Cognition Research

K. Eriksson, Olle Häggström
PLoS ONE. Vol. 9 (4), p. artikel nr e95949-
Journal article
2014

Further results on consensus formation in the Deffuant model

Olle Häggström, Timo Hirscher
Electronic Journal of Probability. Vol. 19, p. artikel nr 19-
Journal article
2014

Vad händer när datorerna blir smartare än vi?

Olle Häggström
Forskning och Framsteg (7)
Magazine article
2014

Emerging technologies and the future of humanity

Olle Häggström
Physica Scripta. Vol. 89 (12), p. 120201-
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2013

Statistisk signifikans och Armageddon

Olle Häggström
Nämnaren. Vol. 2013 (1)
Magazine article
2013

Rigorous computer analysis of the Chow-Robbins game

Olle Häggström, Johan Wästlund
American Mathematical Monthly. Vol. 120 (10), p. 893-900
Journal article
2013

Book Review: Paradoxes in Probability Theory

Olle Häggström
Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 2013 (March), p. 329-331
Magazine article
2013

Mästerligt av Dennett

Olle Häggström
Sans. Vol. 2013 (4)
Magazine article
2013

Why the empirical sciences need statistics so desperately

Olle Häggström
European Congress of Mathematics, Krakow, 2-7 July, 2012, p. 347-360
Paper in proceeding
2013

Ekonomiska följder av en intelligensexplosion

Olle Häggström
Ekonomisk debatt. Vol. 2013 (2)
Magazine article
2013

Two Badly Behaved Percolation Processes on a Nonunimodular Graph

Olle Häggström
Journal of Theoretical Probability. Vol. 26 (4), p. 1165-1180
Journal article
2012

Transparent Neural Networks: Integrating Concept Formation and Reasoning

Claes Strannegård, Olle Häggström, Johan Wessberg et al
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 7716 LNAI, p. 302-311
Paper in proceeding
2012

Bevare oss för det brittiska utvärderingseländet

Gustaf Arrhenius, Per Dannefjord, Olle Häggström et al
Universitetsläraren. Vol. 2012 (18 dec)
Magazine article
2012

A Pairwise Averaging Procedure with Application to Consensus Formation in the Deffuant Model

Olle Häggström
Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. Vol. 119 (1), p. 185-201
Journal article
2012

Book review: The Calculus of Selfishness

Olle Häggström
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (January 2012), p. 47-49
Magazine article
2012

Percolation in invariant Poisson graphs with i.i.d. degrees

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström, A. E. Holroyd
Arkiv for Matematik. Vol. 50 (1), p. 41-58
Journal article
2012

En allomfattande världsbild

Olle Häggström
Axess (7)
Magazine article
2012

Filosofi för stora barn

Olle Häggström
Sans (1/2012)
Journal article
2011

Ett smörgåsbord av dumheter

Olle Häggström
Axess (2/2011)
Magazine article
2011

Global uppvärmning och statistisk signifikans

Olle Häggström
Qvintensen (1/2011)
Magazine article
2011

Begränsat perspektiv på vetenskapens begränsningar

Olle Häggström
Axess (6/2011)
Magazine article
2011

Percolation beyond Zd: The contributions of Oded Schramm

Olle Häggström
Annals of Probability. Vol. 39 (5), p. 1668-1701
Journal article
2011

Klimatvetenskap, klimatdebatt, klimathuliganism

Olle Häggström
Climategate och hotet mot isbjörnarna
Book chapter
2011

En förbättrad människa?

Olle Häggström
Axess (9/2011)
Magazine article
2011

Book review: Nonsense on Stilts

Olle Häggström
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (April 2011)
Magazine article
2011

Selected Works of Oded Schramm, Vol 1 and 2

Itai Benjamini, Olle Häggström
Edited book
2010

Stärk matematiken och naturvetenskapen i nya gymnasiet

Karl-Fredrik Berggren, Martin Cederwall, Eva Forssell-Aronsson et al
Ny Teknik
Magazine article
2010

Religion hanteras bäst under lektionerna i historia

Christer Sturmark, Morgan Johansson, PC Jersild et al
Svenska Dagbladet (10 mars)
Magazine article
2010

Om geoengineering

Olle Häggström
Uppsalainitiativet (11 januari 2010)
Magazine article
2010

Forskare trakasseras av klimatskeptiker

Olle Häggström
Aftonbladet (9 april)
Magazine article
2010

Rektorskandidaten som är vetenskapsfientlig

Sören Holst, Olle Häggström
Tentakel (Februari 2010)
Magazine article
2010

Varför vill Södertörns högskola ha en vetenskapsfientlig rektor?

Sören Holst, Olle Häggström
Newsmill (7 januari 2010)
Magazine article
2010

Vetenskapliga dimridåer

Olle Häggström
Axess (6/2010)
Magazine article
2010

Fallet Lucia

Olle Häggström
Qvintensen (3/2010)
Magazine article
2010

Book Review: The Cult of Statistical Significance

Olle Häggström
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (October 2010), p. 1129-1130
Magazine article
2010

Myt att kristendomen byggt Sverige

Christer Sturmark, Morgan Johansson, PC Jersild et al
Svenska Dagbladet (28 februari)
Magazine article
2010

Vetenskapen klyver USA

Olle Häggström
Axess (1/2010)
Magazine article
2010

On the Speed of Biased Random Walk in Translation Invariant Percolation

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
ALEA - Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. Vol. 7, p. 19-40
Journal article
2010

Försvaret av vetenskapen - ett tvåfrontskrig

Olle Häggström
Humanisten, p. 1/2010-
Magazine article
2010

How objective is objective Bayesianism - and how Bayesian?

Olle Häggström
Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society (December 2010), p. 59-61
Magazine article
2010

Gör den 26 september till allmän helgdag

Olle Häggström
Göteborgs-Posten (26 september)
Magazine article
2009

Om missbruket av statistik

Olle Häggström
Axess. Vol. 2009 (4)
Magazine article
2009

Vem kan man lite på?

Olle Häggström
Osäkrat klimat - laddad utmaning, p. 149-162
Book chapter
2009

Some Two-dimensional Finite Energy Percolation Processes

Olle Häggström, Peter Mester
Electronic Communications in Probability. Vol. 14, p. 42-54
Journal article
2009

Conditional percolation on one-dimensional lattices

Marina Axelson-Fisk, Olle Häggström
Advances in Applied Probability. Vol. 41 (4), p. 3395-3415
Journal article
2009

Nationalekonomin - läran om incitament

Olle Häggström
Svenska Matematikersamfundets Medlemsutskick. Vol. 2009 (15 oktober)
Magazine article
2009

Om istider, klimatförändringar och pterkopplingar

Olle Häggström
Uppsalainitiativet (30 november 2009)
Magazine article
2009

Biased random walk in a one-dimensional percolation model

Marina Axelson-Fisk, Olle Häggström
Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Vol. 119 (10), p. 3395-3415
Journal article
2009

Ekonomer på villovägar

Klas Eklund, Olle Häggström, Markku Rummukainen
Ekonomisk Debatt. Vol. 2009 (6), p. 76-84
Magazine article
2008

Att forska är ett äventyr - men se upp för alla fallgropar

Olle Häggström
Forskarhandledares robusta råd
Book chapter
2008

I svallvågorna av en parodi

Olle Häggström
Axess (8/2008)
Magazine article
2008

Brister i sannolikhetsargument för och emot Guds existens

Olle Häggström
Filosofisk tidskrift. Vol. 29, p. 3-11
Magazine article
2008

Din tro – din ensak?

Olle Häggström
Humanisten (3-4/2008)
Magazine article
2008

Instability of matchings in decentralized markets with various preference structures

Kimmo Eriksson, Olle Häggström
International Journal of Game Theory. Vol. 36, p. 409-420
Journal article
2008

Riktig vetenskap och dåliga imitationer

Olle Häggström
Book
2008

Book review: Irreligion

Olle Häggström
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (August 2008), p. 789-791
Magazine article
2008

Om att skapa ett Institute for Advanced Study i Göteborg.

Ulf Bjereld, Gunnar Bjursell, Chris Forsne et al
Göteborgs-Posten 5 december 2008
Magazine article
2008

Computability of Percolation Thresholds

Olle Häggström
In and Out of Equilibrium 2. Vol. 60, p. 321-329
Book chapter
2008

A note on conditioning and stochastic domination for order statistics

Devdatt Dubhashi, Olle Häggström
Journal of Applied Probability. Vol. 45, p. 575-579
Journal article
2008

The Pleasures and Pains of Studying the Two-type Richardson model

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models
Book chapter
2008

Att skilja vetenskap från pseudovetenskap: exemplet Stockholmsinitiativet

Olle Häggström
Folkvett (4/2008)
Magazine article
2007

The Two-type Richardson Model with Unbounded Initial Configurations

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Annals of Applied Probability. Vol. 17, p. 1639-1656
Journal article
2007

Moder Jord på akuten

Olle Häggström
Alba (1)
Magazine article
2007

Discussion of `Modern statistics for spatial point processes' by Møller and Waagepetersen

Olle Häggström
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Vol. 34, p. 693-694
Journal article
2007

Det är svårt att sia - särskilt om framtiden

Olle Häggström
Axess (6)
Magazine article
2007

Ramseys ekvation och planetens framtid

Olle Häggström
Nämnaren (4)
Magazine article
2007

Blink och Think

Olle Häggström
Tentakel (4)
Magazine article
2007

On Variance Conditions for Markov Chain CLTs

Olle Häggström, Jeffrey Rosenthal
Electronic Communications in Probability. Vol. 12, p. 454-464
Journal article
2007

Blue pleiades, a new solution for device discovery and scatternet formation in multi-hop bluetooth networks

Devdatt Dubhashi, Olle Häggström, Gabriele Mambrini et al
Wireless Networks. Vol. 13 (1), p. 107--125-
Journal article
2007

Intelligent design and the NFL theorems

Olle Häggström
Biology and Philosophy. Vol. 22, p. 217-230
Journal article
2007

Att tänka långsiktigt - om marshmallows, räntor och koldioxidutsläpp

Olle Häggström
Konsumera mera - dyrköpt lycka. Formas fokuserar., p. 123-134
Book chapter
2007

Objective truth versus human understanding in mathematics and in chess

Olle Häggström
Mathematics Enthusiast. Vol. 4, p. 140-153
Journal article
2007

McGrath vs Dawkins

Olle Häggström
Humanisten (6)
Magazine article
2007

Problem solving is often a matter of cooking up an appropriate Markov chain

Olle Häggström
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Vol. 34, p. 768-780
Journal article
2007

Localized techniques for broadcasting in wireless sensor networks.

Devdatt Dubhashi, Olle Häggström, Lorenzo Orrechia et al
Algorithmica. Vol. 49 (4), p. 412--446-
Journal article
2007

Färgstark kvinna lockar filosofer

Olle Häggström
Axess (4)
Magazine article
2006

The Initial Configuration is Irrelevant for the Possibility of Mutual Unbounded Growth in the Two-type Richardson Model

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing. Vol. 15, p. 345-353
Journal article
2006

Absurt om fördelen att vänta

Olle Häggström
Västerbottens-Kuriren (9 december)
Magazine article
2006

Proof of a Conjecture of N. Konno for the 1D Contact Process

Jacob van den Berg, Olle Häggström, Jeff Kahn
Dynamics and Stochastics: Festschrift in Honor of M.S. Keane (Denteneer, D., den Hollander, F. and Verbitskiy, E., eds), IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series., p. 16-23
Journal article
2006

Arvet efter Darwin

Olle Häggström
Alba (6)
Magazine article
2006

Duger det att stå utanför och se in?

Olle Häggström
Folkvett (4), p. 76-84
Magazine article
2006

Some Conditional Correlation Inequalities for Percolation and Related Processes

Jacob van den Berg, Olle Häggström, Jeff Kahn
Random Structures and Algorithms. Vol. 29, p. 417-435
Journal article
2006

The Volume Fraction of a Non-overlapping Germ-grain Model

Jenny Andersson, Olle Häggström, Marianne Månsson
Electronic Communications in Probability. Vol. 11, p. 78-88
Journal article
2006

Matematiken som Antidarwinistiskt Tillhygge

Olle Häggström
NORMAT - Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift. Vol. 54, p. 75-90
Journal article
2006

Uniqueness and Non-uniqueness in Percolation Theory

Olle Häggström, Johan Jonasson
Probability Surveys. Vol. 3, p. 289-344
Journal article
2006

A Law of Large Numbers for Weighted Majority

Olle Häggström, Gil Kalai, Elchanan Mossel
Advances in Applied Mathematics. Vol. 37, p. 112-123
Journal article
2006

Refinements of Stochastic Domination

Erik Broman, Olle Häggström, Jeffrey Steif
Probability Theory and Related Fields. Vol. 136 (4), p. 587-603
Journal article
2006

Nonmonotonic Coexistence Regions for the Two-type Richardson Model on Graphs

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Electronic Journal of Probability. Vol. 11, p. 331-344
Journal article
2006

Acknowledgement of priority concerning "on the central limit theorem for geometrically ergodic Markov chains"

Olle Häggström
Probability Theory and Related Fields. Vol. 135 (3), p. 470-470
Journal article
2006

Gud och Darwin möts i bioteologin

Olle Häggström
Svenska Dagbladet (27 maj)
Magazine article
2005

On the Central Limit Theorem for Geometrically Ergodic Markov Chains

Olle Häggström
Probability Theory and Related Fields. Vol. 132 (1), p. 74-82
Journal article
2005

Proof of a Conjecture of N. Konno for the 1D Contact Process

J. van den Berg, Olle Häggström, J. Kahn
Preprint
2005

Refinements of Stochastic Domination

Erik Broman, Olle Häggström, Jeffrey Steif
Preprint
2005

Slumpen och evolutionen

Olle Häggström
Nämnaren (3), p. 25-31
Magazine article
2005

Irrigating ad hoc networks in constant time

Devdatt Dubhashi, Christoffer Johansson, Olle Häggström et al
Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures. Vol. 2005
Paper in proceeding
2005

Mittag-Leffler en matematikens entreprenör

Olle Häggström
Svenska Dagbladet (6 mars)
Magazine article
2005

The Volume Fraction of a Non-overlapping Germ-grain Model

Jenny Andersson, Olle Häggström, Marianne Månsson
Preprint
2004

Det kan löna sig att räkna rätt

Olle Häggström
Svenska Dagbladet (10 september)
Magazine article
2004

Coexistence in a two continuum growth model

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Preprint
2004

A Stochastic Model for Competing Growth on R^d

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström, Jonathan Bagley
Markov Processes and Related Fields. Vol. 10, p. 217-248
Journal article
2004

Some conditional correlation inequalities for percolation and related processes

J. van den Berg, Olle Häggström, J. Kahn
Preprint
2004

A law of large numbers for weighted majority

Olle Häggström, Gil Kalai, Elchanan Mossel
Preprint
2004

Coexistence in a Two-type Continuum Growth Model

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström
Advances in Applied Probability. Vol. 36, p. 973-980
Journal article
2004

Gibbs Properties of the Fuzzy Potts Model on Trees and in Mean Field

Olle Häggström, Christopher Külske
Markov Processes and Related Fields. Vol. 10, p. 477-506
Journal article
2003

Gibbs properties of the Fuzzy Potts model on trees and in mean field

Olle Häggström, Christopher Külske
Preprint
2003

Connectivity Properties of Bluetooth Wireless Networks

Devdatt Dubhashi, Olle Häggström, Alessandro Panconesi
Preprint
2003

A stochastic model for competing growth on R^d

Maria Deijfen, Olle Häggström, Jonathan Bagley
Preprint
2002

Is the fuzzy Potts model Gibbsian?

Olle Häggström
Preprint
2002

Sannolikhetsteori på tvåvåningsgrafer

Olle Häggström
Preprint
2001

Which properties of random sequence are dynamically sensitive?

Itai Benjamini, Olle Häggström, Yuval Peres et al
Preprint
2000

A strict inequality for the random triangle model

Olle Häggström, Tatyana Turova
Preprint
2000

Coloring percolation clusters at random

Olle Häggström
Preprint
2000

A note on disagreement percolation

Olle Häggström
Preprint
1999

The random geometry of equilibrium phases

Hans-Otto Georgii, Olle Häggström, Christian Maes
Preprint
1999

On random graph homomorphisms into Ζ

Itai Benjamini, Olle Häggström, Elchanan Mossel
Preprint
1999

On the effect of adding ε-Bernoulli percolation to everywhere prercolating subgraphs of Ζd

Itai Benjamini, Olle Häggström, Oded Schramm
Preprint
1999

Positive correlations in the fuzzy Potts model

Olle Häggström
Preprint
1999

The Ising model on diluted graphs and strong amenability

Olle Häggström, Roberto H. Schonmann, Jeffrey Steif
Preprint
1997

Exact sampling from anti-monotone systems

Olle Häggström, Karin Nelander
Preprint
1997

Phase transition in the random triangle model

Olle Häggström, Johan Jonasson
Preprint
1997

On exact simulation of Markov random fields using coupling from the past

Olle Häggström, Karin Nelander
Preprint
1996

First passage percolation and a model for competing spatial growth

Olle Häggström, Robin Pemantle
Preprint
1996

Rates of convergence for lamplighter processes

Olle Häggström, Johan Jonasson
Preprint
1994

Aspects of Spatial Random Processes

Olle Häggström
Doctoral thesis
1993

Gibbs states and subshifts of finite type

Olle Häggström
Licentiate thesis

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Showing 4 research projects

2022–2025

Topics in the theory of xrisk and longtermism

Olle Häggström Applied Mathematics and Statistics
FTX Foundation Future Fund

2017–2019

Studies in existential risk

Olle Häggström Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Chalmers

2013–2018

Stochastics for big data and big systems - bridging local and global

Holger Rootzen Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Bernt Wennberg Mathematical Sciences
Rebecka Jörnsten Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Igor Rychlik Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Sergey Zuev Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Johan Jonasson Analysis and Probability Theory
Johan Wästlund Analysis and Probability Theory
Jeffrey Steif Analysis and Probability Theory
Olle Häggström Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Robert Berman Algebra and geometry
Aila Särkkä Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

8 publications exist
2012–2015

Percolation theory and spatial interaction

Olle Häggström Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Swedish Research Council (VR)

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