History of existential risk

TagLast edit: 14 Aug 2022 16:35 UTC by Pablo

Further reading

Moynihan, Thomas (2020) X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction, Falmouth: Urbanomic.

Righetti, Luca & Fin Moorhouse (2021) Thomas Moynihan on the history of existential risk, Hear This Idea, March 22.

Sánchez, Sebastián (2022) Timeline of existential risk, Timelines Wiki, August 5.

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