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Existential Risk Books
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The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,014 ratings — published 2020
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,963 ratings — published 2014
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.96 — 274 ratings — published 2008
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,888 ratings — published 2020
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,836 ratings — published 2025
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.37 — 45,790 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 — 27,454 ratings — published 2017
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,938 ratings — published 2019
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.14 — 144 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 — 14,509 ratings — published 2013
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,585 ratings — published 2023
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,288 ratings — published 1959
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.16 — 527 ratings — published
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,408 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 — 1,694 ratings — published
Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,153 ratings — published 2019
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,894 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 4.11 — 9 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 — 423 ratings — published 2008
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.08 — 491,985 ratings — published 2006
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.40 — 295 ratings — published
Politiser le renoncement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 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 — 12,105 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 — 5,543 ratings — published 2009
Danger d'extinction: Changements climatiques et menace nucléaire (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.83 — 29 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 — 8,444 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 — 30,115 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 — 244,834 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 — 1,939 ratings — published 2015
Upgrade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 121,100 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 3.72 — 2,730 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 — 2,702 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 — 3,138 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 — 1,540 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 — 4,801 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 — 30,038 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 — 741 ratings — published 2013
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,356 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 — 2,848 ratings — published 2018
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,907 ratings — published 2018
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.50 — 882 ratings — published 2021
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,449 ratings — published 2004
RetroSuburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as existential-risk)
avg rating 4.52 — 185 ratings — published
“But there is a huge difference between, on one hand, admitting that there are severe difficulties, and, on the other, throwing our hands in the air and fatalistically declaring the problem to be unsolvable. We don't know that they are in solvable until we tried, and tried really hard. Given the magnitude of what's at stake, just giving up on the problem is in my opinion unacceptable. The extent to which we are currently neglecting the problem is shocking. Nick Bostrom, in a recent paper, illustrates this with a diagram showing how the number of academic publications on snowboarding outnumbers those on risks of human extinction by a factor of 20 or so, while those on dung beetles beat those on snowboarding by another factor of 2. This should not be taken as a suggestion that too much effort is spent on academic studies of snowboarding and dung beetles, but rather as an indication that current efforts into the study of existential risks to humanity could easily be significantly scaled up without major destruction to the current academic landscape as a whole.”
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
“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
