📗 Libro en inglés EDDIE THE EASTER EGG

What existential threats does humanity face And how can we secure our future â The Precipice is a powerful book Ordâ s love for humanity and hope for its future is infectiousâ Spectatorâ Ordâ s analysis of the science is exemplary Thrillingly writtenâ Sunday TimesWe live during the most important era of human history In the twentieth century we developed the means to destroy ourselves â without developing the moral framework to ensure we won t This is the Precipice and how we respond to it will be the most crucial decision of our time Oxford moral philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity s future from the familiar man made threats of climate change and nuclear war to the potentially greater more unfamiliar threats from engineered pandemics and advanced artificial intelligence With clear and rigorous thinking Ord calculates the various risk levels and shows how our own time fits within the larger story of human history We can say with certainty that the novel coronavirus does not pose such a risk But could the next pandemic And what can we do in our present moment to face the risks head on A major work that brings together the disciplines of physics biology earth and computer science history anthropology statistics