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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
AI Safety: Humanity, Control, and the Race to Keep Superintelligence Aligned
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 BostromReasons and Persons by Derek ParfitGlobal Catastrophic Risks by Nick BostromThe Precipice by Toby Ord
Effective Altruism Long-Termism Books
23 books — 20 voters
Visible Ops A.I. by Scott AlldridgeHow to Survive the Singularity by Dr Norman P JohnsonSuperintelligence by Nick BostromA Fractured I.T. by Maurice JohnsonHuman Compatible by Stuart Russell
AI Governance
8 books — 16 voters

Quotes Tagged “Existential Risk”

Derek Parfit
“ What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and humanity survives the next few centuries, our descendants or successors could end these risks by spreading through this galaxy. Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we c ...more ”
― Derek Parfit, On What Matters: Volume 3
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Roger Spitz
“ Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world or reaching human-level intelligence, but rather the opposite where human beings think like idle machines - unable to connect the emerging dots of our complex, systemic world. ”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
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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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