A Decade of Hit Books
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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
What We Owe the Future
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)
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How to Survive the Singularity by Dr Norman P JohnsonSuperintelligence by Nick BostromA Fractured I.T. by Maurice JohnsonHuman Compatible by Stuart RussellThe Precipice by Toby Ord
AI Governance
7 books — 6 voters
How to Survive the Singularity by Dr Norman P JohnsonSuperintelligence by Nick BostromReasons and Persons by Derek ParfitGlobal Catastrophic Risks by Nick BostromThe Precipice by Toby Ord
Effective Altruism Long-Termism Books
23 books — 21 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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“ We urgently need to find ways to push scientific and technological progress in directions that are likely to bring us good, and away from those directions that spell doom. This cannot be done if we stick to the erroneous view that all such progress is good for us. The first thing we need is to be able to distinguish those advances whose potential is most in the direction of prosperity and human flourishing from those whose potential is more in the direction of destruction and doom, and we need t ...more ”
― Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
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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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