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urn:uuid:27ee8b2e-cd7f-420e-97ab-5ae534bb78e4 03 01 01 urn:uuid:27ee8b2e-cd7f-420e-97ab-5ae534bb78e4 15 9781800647886 06 10.11647/OBP.0336 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The Era of Global Risk An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2834-0993 SJ Beard 2 B01 Martin Rees 3 B01 21 0000-0002-0084-0734 Catherine Richards 4 B01 21 0000-0001-6544-4663 Clarissa Rios Rojas First edition. 01 eng 00 334 03 12 GPQD 93 GTQ 10 NAT011000 B2 Politics and Sociology B2 Environmental Studies 12 JFFS 93 JPQB 10 POL033000 12 GTF 93 JHB 10 POL028000 12 JFF 10 SOC026000 01 06 03 00 This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively.These essays pair insights from decades of research and activism around global risk with the latest academic findings from the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. Voicing the work of world leading experts and tackling a variety of vital issues, they weigh up the demands of natural systems with political pressures and technological advances to build an empowering vision of how we can safeguard humanity’s long-term future. The book covers both a comprehensive survey of how to study and manage global risks with in-depth discussion of core risk drivers: including environmental breakdown, novel technologies, global scale natural disasters, and nuclear threats. The Era of Global Risk offers a thorough analysis of the most serious dangers to humanity. Inspiring, accessible, and essential reading for both students of global risk and those committed to its mitigation, this book poses one critical question: how can we make sense of this era of global risk and move beyond it to an era of global safety? 04 00 Preface Introduction 1. A Brief History of Existential Risk and the People Who  Worked to Mitigate It 2. Theories and Models: Understanding and Predicting  Societal Collapse 3. Existential Risk and Science Governance 4. Beyond “Error and Terror”: Global Justice and Global  5. We Have to Include Everyone: Enabling Humanity to  Reduce Existential Risk 6. Natural Global Catastrophic Risks 7. Ecological Breakdown and Human Extinction 8. Biosecurity, Biosafety and Dual Use: Will Humanity  Minimise Potential Harms in the Age of Biotechnology? 9. From Turing’s Speculations to an Academic  Discipline: A History of AI Existential Safety 10. Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk Afterword Contributor Biographies Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 16 Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Cambridge, UK 04 01 20230823 2023 06 15 9781800647862 06 15 9781800647879 06 15 9781800647886 06 15 9781800647923 06 15 9781800647916 06 15 9781800647893 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0336.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0336 99 01