X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

From global pandemics to prophecies of evil Al superintelligences to the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospect of its own extinction. With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, the twenty-first century has seen 'existential risk' become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growin...