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Global Catastrophic Risks is a 2008 non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and astronomer Milan M. Ćirković. The book is a collection of essays from 26 academics written about various global catastrophic and existential risks .
The perceived problems of this definition of existential risk, primarily relating to its scale, have stimulated other scholars of the field to prefer a more broader category, that is less exclusively related to posthuman expectations and extinctionist scenarios, such as "global catastrophic risks". Bostrom himself has partially incorporated ...
Nick Bostrom (/ ˈ b ɒ s t r əm / BOST-rəm; Swedish: Niklas Boström [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈbûːstrœm]; born 10 March 1973) [3] is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
Scope–severity grid from Bostrom's paper "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority" [1] Risks of astronomical suffering, also called suffering risks or s-risks, are risks involving much more suffering than all that has occurred on Earth so far. [2] [3] They are sometimes categorized as a subclass of existential risks. [4]
A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, [2] even endangering or destroying modern civilization. [3] An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential is known as an " existential risk ".
Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by humans), such as global warming, [1] environmental degradation, and nuclear war. [2] Others are non-anthropogenic or natural, such as meteor impacts or supervolcanoes.
Nick Bostrom and Milan Ćirković: Global Catastrophic Risks, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-857050-9; Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu: Human Enhancement, 2011. ISBN 0-19-929972-2; Nick Bostrom: Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy, 2010. ISBN 0-415-93858-9; Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg: Brain Emulation Roadmap, 2008.
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