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Existential Risk Books
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The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,893 ratings — published 2020
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,683 ratings — published 2014
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.98 — 271 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,073 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 — 27,184 ratings — published 2017
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,830 ratings — published 2019
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.12 — 141 ratings — published
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,712 ratings — published 2020
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 — 14,316 ratings — published 2013
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.22 — 101 ratings — published
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,305 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 4.05 — 1,635 ratings — published
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,612 ratings — published 2019
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,858 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 3.42 — 413 ratings — published 2008
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.08 — 475,929 ratings — published 2006
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.40 — 283 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 — 11,991 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 4.15 — 5,493 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 — 8,335 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 — 29,748 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 — 242,849 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 — 1,927 ratings — published 2015
Upgrade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 117,699 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 — 2,717 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 — 2,660 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 — 3,103 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 — 1,533 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 4.13 — 4,714 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 — 29,631 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 — 735 ratings — published 2013
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,142 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 — 2,812 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,839 ratings — published 2018
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.50 — 862 ratings — published 2021
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,419 ratings — published 2004
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.52 — 182 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 — 280 ratings — published 2013
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.93 — 142 ratings — published 2013
“How can the world find global solutions to systemic challenges like pandemics, climate mitigation and AI regulation? Regional approaches are inadequate for holistic issues.”
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“No science and no analysis of the future consequences of various actions taken today can in itself tell us what to do. We need, in addition, to factor in what kind of future we value, and to what extent we care at all about the future compared to more immediate concerns here and now. The later aspect is usually modeled and economics by the so-called discount rate, which has played a prominent role in discussions of climate change on a decadal and centennial time scale, but hardly at all in the context of longer perspectives or the various radical technologies[.] We are less used to thinking about ethical issues on long time scales, so our intuitions trying to fail us and lead to paradoxes. These issues need to be resolved, because dodging the bullet would in my opinion be unacceptably irresponsible.”
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
