Technologies that don't fully exist yet — the horizon of what's coming next.
An Oxford philosopher's assessment of existential risks and how to navigate them. Rigorous and urgent.
Senior research fellow at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and co-founder of Giving What We Can. The Precipice (2020) is the most rigorous published estimate of existential risks this century — pandemic, AI, nuclear — and what bringing them down would cost.
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