Global Catastrophic Risks (book)
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. A paperback version was published in 2011.
Content
The risks covered by the book include both anthropogenic risks and non-anthropogenic risks.- Anthropogenic: artificial general intelligence, biological warfare, nuclear warfare, nanotechnology, anthropogenic climate change, global warming, stable global totalitarianism
- Non-anthropogenic: asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts