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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk 00:01:28 1 Classifications 00:01:37 1.1 Global catastrophic vs. existential 00:03:22 2 Likelihood 00:07:10 3 Moral importance of existential risk 00:09:45 4 Potential sources of risk 00:10:13 4.1 Anthropogenic 00:10:43 4.1.1 Artificial intelligence 00:13:26 4.1.2 Biotechnology 00:16:06 4.1.3 Cyberattack 00:16:30 4.1.4 Environmental disaster 00:17:58 4.1.5 Experimental technology accident 00:19:02 4.1.6 Global warming 00:20:05 4.1.7 Mineral resource exhaustion 00:21:37 4.1.8 Nanotechnology 00:25:20 4.1.9 Warfare and mass destruction 00:27:22 4.1.10 World population and agricultural crisis 00:29:28 4.2 Non-anthropogenic 00:29:36 4.2.1 Asteroid impact 00:31:44 4.2.2 Cosmic threats 00:34:32 4.2.3 Extraterrestrial invasion 00:35:53 4.2.4 Global pandemic 00:38:25 4.2.5 Natural climate change 00:39:59 4.2.6 Volcanism 00:43:50 5 Proposed mitigation 00:45:39 5.1 Global catastrophic risks and global governance 00:46:18 5.2 Climate emergency plans 00:46:40 6 Organizations 00:51:22 7 See also 00:51:30 8 Notes 00:51:39 9 Further reading 00:54:14 10 External links Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8466028398371882 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization. An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's potential is known as an existential risk.Potential global catastrophic risks include anthropogenic risks, caused by humans (technology, governance, climate change), and non-anthropogenic or external risks. Examples of technology risks are hostile artificial intelligence and destructive biotechnology or nanotechnology. Insufficient or malign global governance creates risks in the social and political domain, such as a global war, including nuclear holocaust, bioterrorism using genetically modified organisms, cyberterrorism destroying critical infrastructure like the electrical grid; or the failure to manage a natural pandemic. Problems and risks in the domain of earth system governance include global warming, environmental degradation, including extinction of species, famine as a result of non-equitable resource distribution, human overpopulation, crop failures and non-sustainable agriculture. Examples of non-anthropogenic risks are an asteroid impact event, a supervolcanic eruption, a lethal gamma-ray burst, a geomagnetic storm destroying electronic equipment, natural long-term climate change, hostile extraterrestrial life, or the predictable Sun transforming into a red giant star engulfing the Earth. |