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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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Superintelligence by Nick BostromReasons and Persons by Derek ParfitGlobal Catastrophic Risks by Nick BostromThe Precipice by Toby OrdLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
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Superintelligence by Nick BostromA Fractured I.T. by Maurice JohnsonHuman Compatible by Stuart RussellThe Precipice by Toby OrdLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark
AI Governance
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Quotes Tagged “Existential Risk”

“ A people who choose spectacle over skill will dance to the rhythm of their own extinction. ”
― PIERRE LAGRENAT
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“ Since the notion of quality, as understood by [the Swedish Research Council], is supposed to ignore practical applicability, quality as the sole selection criterion means that we value the production of new knowledge and its own right, rather than just a means towards attaining other goals. I have long been – and still am – highly sympathetic to this romantic view of knowledge and intellectual achievements. To improve our understanding of the world we live in really is one of the most magnificen ...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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