Existential Risk to Humanity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Foresight Series ; v.1 .
- Foresight Series .
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.