The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

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A book by Toby Ord that provides a comprehensive analysis of existential risks facing humanity, such as nuclear war, engineered pandemics, and unaligned artificial intelligence. Ord argues that humanity is at a crucial point in its history and must take action to safeguard its long-term future.

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I think if you were to look at um the precipice uh book looking at existential risk, if you to look at that, you would see AGI uh engineered pandemics, bioweapony type nanotechnology stuff that I think ranks more highly than this is X risk, like this is permanent unreoverable collapse.

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The Precipice
Toby Ord
existential risk
future of humanity

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"The book is explicitly mentioned by name ("the precipice book") and attributed to Toby Ord, in the context of discussing existential risks like AGI and engineered pandemics."

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