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X-Risk

Af: Thomas Moynihan Engelsk Paperback

X-Risk

Af: Thomas Moynihan Engelsk Paperback
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How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction.

From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity''s future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history.

Tracing this untold story, Moynihan revisits the pioneers who first contemplated the possibility of human extinction and stages the historical drama of this momentous discovery. He shows how, far from being a secular reprise of religious prophecies of apocalypse, existential risk is a thoroughly modern idea, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era. In recollecting how we first came to care for our extinction, Moynihan reveals how today''s attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago, which concerns the very vocation of the human as a rational, responsible, and future-oriented being.

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How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction.

From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity''s future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history.

Tracing this untold story, Moynihan revisits the pioneers who first contemplated the possibility of human extinction and stages the historical drama of this momentous discovery. He shows how, far from being a secular reprise of religious prophecies of apocalypse, existential risk is a thoroughly modern idea, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era. In recollecting how we first came to care for our extinction, Moynihan reveals how today''s attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago, which concerns the very vocation of the human as a rational, responsible, and future-oriented being.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781913029845
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1913029840
Kategori: Naturvidenskab
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2020
Længde: 39mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: Urbanomic Media Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2020
Forfatter(e): Thomas Moynihan
Forfatter(e) Thomas Moynihan

Kategori Naturvidenskab

ISBN-13 9781913029845

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 39mm

Bredde 196mm

Højde 131mm

Udg. Dato 1 sep 2020

Oplagsdato 1 sep 2020

Forlag Urbanomic Media Ltd