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The following sources provide an introduction to
issues of catastrophic
risk, including those associated with a variety of
human technologies.
Things by us
- Earth
in its final century? A TED talk by Martin
Rees.
- Our
Final Century? (2003) and From
Here to Infinity (2011) — books by
Martin Rees.
- Denial
of catastrophic risk. An editorial in Science
(8 March 2013) by Martin Rees.
- AI
— Can we keep it in the box? A brief
introduction to the issues in the case of AI,
with links to further reading, by Huw Price and
Jaan Tallinn.
- The
Intelligence Stairway. A public lecture by
Jaan Tallinn at Sydney
Ideas, July 2012 (introduced by Huw
Price).
- Cambridge,
Cabs and Copenhagen: My Route to Existential
Risk. Huw Price in the New York Times.
- Life
as we know it. Max Tegmark at Edge.
Things by others
- Why
the future doesn't need us. A classic and
controversial piece by Bill
Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
- Catastrophe:
Risk and Response (2005). An
important book by Richard
Posner — "worth
the price of the book simply for Posner's lively
and readable summary
of the apocalyptic dystopias that serious
scientists judge to be
possible"(Washington Post).
- Omens.
An excellent recent profile of the work of Nick
Bostrom and his colleagues at the Future of
Humanity Institute, Oxford.
[To be continued]
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