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Existential Risk Books
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The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,942 ratings — published 2020
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,757 ratings — published 2014
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.97 — 271 ratings — published 2008
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,764 ratings — published 2020
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.38 — 42,784 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 4.00 — 27,277 ratings — published 2017
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,857 ratings — published 2019
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.13 — 142 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 4.21 — 61 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 — 14,369 ratings — published 2013
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,411 ratings — published 1959
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.22 — 291 ratings — published
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,338 ratings — published 2022
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 4.04 — 1,653 ratings — published
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,797 ratings — published 2019
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,869 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 4.12 — 8 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 — 416 ratings — published 2008
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.08 — 481,040 ratings — published 2006
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.39 — 285 ratings — published
Politiser le renoncement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 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 — 12,019 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 — 5,515 ratings — published 2009
Danger d'extinction: Changements climatiques et menace nucléaire (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 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 — 8,375 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 — 29,905 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 — 243,627 ratings — published 2014
No(s) Futur(s)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.77 — 31 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 3.75 — 1,933 ratings — published 2015
Upgrade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 118,935 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 3.73 — 2,721 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 4.16 — 2,673 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 — 3,113 ratings — published 2017
Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 31 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 — 1,535 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 4.12 — 4,748 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 — 29,769 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 — 737 ratings — published 2013
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,211 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 — 2,829 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,869 ratings — published 2018
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.50 — 870 ratings — published 2021
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,430 ratings — published 2004
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.52 — 183 ratings — published
Hot Earth Dreams: What if severe climate change happens, and humans survive? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.82 — 38 ratings — published
Deep Risk: How History Informs Portfolio Design (Investing For Adults)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.24 — 282 ratings — published 2013
“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.”
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“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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