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"It’s dangerous to be alive and risks are everywhere."
- Nick Bostrom, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards
Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002).
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Nuclear Holocaust | 9 |
Resource depletion or ecological destruction | 8 |
Runaway global warming | 8 |
Accidental misuse of nanotechnology (“gray goo”) | 5 |
Take-over by a transcending upload | 4 |
Something unforeseen | 3 |
Naturally occurring disease | 3 |
Genetically engineered biological agent | 3 |
We’re living in a simulation and it gets shut down | 3 |
Deliberate misuse of nanotechnology | 2 |
Killed by an extraterrestrial civilization | 2 |
Badly programmed superintelligence | 2 |
Misguided world government or another static social equilibrium stops technological progress | 2 |
Physics disasters | 1 |
“Dysgenic” pressures | 1 |
Asteroid or comet impact | 1 |
Flawed superintelligence | 0 |
Repressive totalitarian global regime | 0 |
Our potential or even our core values are eroded by evolutionary development | 0 |
Technological arrest | 0 |
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