2026 Reading Challenge
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Existential Risk


Existential Risk Books

The Precipice
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Global Catastrophic Risks
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
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Superintelligence by Nick BostromHuman Compatible by Stuart RussellThe Precipice by Toby OrdLife 3.0 by Max TegmarkSuperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
AI Governance
5 books — 1 voter
Superintelligence by Nick BostromReasons and Persons by Derek ParfitGlobal Catastrophic Risks by Nick BostromThe Precipice by Toby OrdLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Effective Altruism Long-Termism Books
21 books — 12 voters

Quotes Tagged “Existential Risk”

Roger Spitz
“ For businesses to survive, they will need to build organizational resilience for climate change, cyber, technology, and space as part of a broader existential risk management strategy. ”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
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Norbert Wiener
“ If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot efficiently interfere once we have started it, because the action is so fast and irrevocable that we have not the data to intervene before the action is complete, then we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire and not merely a colorful imitation of it. ”
― Norbert Wiener
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Groups Tagged "Existential Risk"

Harvard-MIT Project on Existential Risk A book group for anyone affiliated with Harvard or MIT who is interested in existential risk and…more
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