Existential risk to humanity
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 18. March 2019
176 pages
978-1-83867-192-1 (ISBN)
Description
Existential risks are those that threaten the extinction of humanity, or, somewhat more broadly, those "e;where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential"e; (Bostrom, 2002). While it has long been widely recognized that global nuclear war and catastrophic climate change have potentially civilization-threatening consequences, it is only in the last decade or two that scholars have begun, in work that is typically highly interdisciplinary, to systematically investigate a broader range of existential risks. The papers in this ebook discuss these issues.
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- Cover
- Guest editorial
- Facing disaster: the great challenges framework
- Complexity, creeping normalcy and conceit: sexy and unsexy risks
- Long-term trajectories of human civilization
- There is plenty of time at the bottom: the economics, risk and ethics of time compression
- Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes
- Food without sun: price and life-saving potential
- When two existential risks are better than one
- Predicting future AI failures from historic examples
- Challenges to the Omohundro-Bostrom framework for AI motivations
- The intelligence explosion revisited
