Global Catastrophic Risks - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199606501 ISBN 13: 9780199606504

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global scale. This book focuses on such risks arising from natural catastrophes (Earth-based or beyond), nuclear war, terrorism, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and social collapse.

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About the Author

Nick Bostrom, PhD, is a Professor at Oxford University, where he leads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He previously taught at Yale University in the Department of Philosophy and in the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Bostrom has served as an expert consultant for the European Commission in Brussels and for the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC. He has advised the British Parliament, the European Parliament, and many other public bodies on issues relating to emerging technologies.


Milan M. Cirkovic, PhD, is a senior research associate of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, (Serbia) and a professor of Cosmology at Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He received both his PhD in Physics and his MSc in Earth and Space Sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) and his BSc in Theoretical Physics was received from the University of Belgrade.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199606501
• ISBN 13: 9780199606504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Bostrom Nick, Cirkovic Milan M.