Global catastrophic risks /
A global catastrophic risk is a risk that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This text focuses on global catastrophic risks arising from natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, biological weapons, advanced nanotechnology, artificial intelligence,...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Long-term astrophysical processes / Fred C. Adams
- Evolution theory and the future of humanity / Christopher Wills
- Millennial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats / James J. Hughes
- Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks / Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks / Milan M. Ćirković
- Systems-based risk analysis / Yacov Y. Haimes
- Catastrophes and insurance / Peter Taylor
- Public policy toward catastrophe / Richard A. Posner
- Super-volcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import / Michael R. Rampino
- Hazards from comets and asteroids / William Napier
- Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment / Arnon Dar
- Climate change and global risk / David Frame and Myles R. Allen
- Plagues and pandemics : past, present, and future / Edwin Dennis Kilbourne
- Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk / Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Big troubles, imagined and real / Frank Wilczek
- Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction / Robin Hanson
- The continuing threat of nuclear war / Joseph Cirincione
- Catastrophic nuclear terrorism : a preventable peril / Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter
- Biotechnology and biosecurity / Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba
- Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk / Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder
- The totalitarian threat / Bryan Caplan.