Existential Risk
Defined by Nick Bostrom as a threat to the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent destruction of its potential.
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Videos Mentioning Existential Risk
How Much Does the Future Matter?: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #292)
Sam Harris
Risks that could cause human extinction or permanent, drastic collapse of civilization, such as advanced bioweapons, unaligned AI, or totalitarian dystopias.
Human Extinction: What Are the Risks?
Sabine Hossenfelder
Defined by Nick Bostrom as a threat to the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent destruction of its potential.
Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #107
Lex Fridman
The risk of human extinction or a permanently drastic reduction in humanity's potential.
Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? (It’s About Time!)
Cal Newport
A sub-community within rationalism focused on rationally studying risks to humanity's long-term survival, such as asteroid impacts, pandemics, and superintelligent AI.