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The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,259 ratings — published 2020
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,685 ratings — published 2014
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.97 — 279 ratings — published 2008
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,391 ratings — published 2020
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,938 ratings — published 2025
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,687 ratings — published 2022
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,391 ratings — published 2024
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,117 ratings — published 2017
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,186 ratings — published 2019
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.12 — 148 ratings — published
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.71 — 49 ratings — published 2013
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (Paper)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.25 — 64 ratings — published
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,022 ratings — published 2013
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,077 ratings — published 2023
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,827 ratings — published 1959
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,263 ratings — published 2025
The Nuclear case book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1983
Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Analyses and Prescriptions (Open University Set Book)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1985
Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,788 ratings — published
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.98 — 31,955 ratings — published 2019
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,950 ratings — published 2019
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published
Atlas de la France toxique (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.43 — 440 ratings — published 2008
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.08 — 535,857 ratings — published 2006
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.38 — 307 ratings — published
Politiser le renoncement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.47 — 15 ratings — published
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,420 ratings — published 2018
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,697 ratings — published 2009
Danger d'extinction: Changements climatiques et menace nucléaire (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,694 ratings — published 2012
The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,167 ratings — published 2017
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.95 — 250,394 ratings — published 2014
No(s) Futur(s)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.79 — 33 ratings — published 2020
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,972 ratings — published 2015
Upgrade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.80 — 130,037 ratings — published 2022
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,791 ratings — published 2020
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,783 ratings — published 2020
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,199 ratings — published 2017
Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2016
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,564 ratings — published 2003
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,003 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,980 ratings — published 2016
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.94 — 757 ratings — published 2013
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,906 ratings — published 2007
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,942 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,050 ratings — published 2018
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.48 — 926 ratings — published 2021
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,518 ratings — published 2004
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.52 — 193 ratings — published
“Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach — see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience — is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.”
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“We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage today for biotechnology, and we will reach the stage where we need to directly implement defensive technologies for nanotechnology during the late teen years of this century… A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks.”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology