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An article in The New York Times Magazine discussed the possible threats for humanity of intentionally sending messages aimed at extraterrestrial life into the cosmos in the context of the SETI efforts. Several public figures such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have argued against sending such messages, on the grounds that extraterrestrial ...
Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. [1]Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction).
Global decimation threat: A plausible and significant contributor to global decimation risk. Endgame territory: Levels of global warming and societal fragility that are judged sufficiently probable to constitute climate change as an extinction threat. Worst-case warming: The highest empirically and theoretically plausible level of global warming.
Marshall Brain (2020) The Doomsday Book: The Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Threats Union Square ISBN 9781454939962; Martin Rees (2004) Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century—On Earth and Beyond ISBN 0-465-06863-4; Rhodes, Catherine (2024).
Our Final Hour is a 2003 book by the British Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees. The full title of the book is Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century—On Earth and Beyond.
Elon Musk has said he believes AI is “one of the biggest threats” to humanity, and that the UK’s AI Safety Summit was “timely” given the scale of the threat.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. is a 2021 book by anthropologist Alexander Laban Hinton and ...
As the U.S. prepares to spend close to $2 trillion on remaking its nuclear arsenal, we must draw on Oppenheimer’s wisdom and take bold action now to protect humanity from the existential threat ...