Contents
1. A Brief History of Existential Risk and the People Who Worked to Mitigate It 1
2. Theories and Models: Understanding and Predicting Societal Collapse 27
3. Existential Risk and Science Governance 53
4. Beyond ‘Error and Terror’: Global Justice and Global Catastrophic Risk 77
5. We Have to Include Everyone: Enabling Humanity to Reduce Existential Risk 97
6. Natural Global Catastrophic Risks 119
7. Ecological Breakdown and Human Extinction 143
9. From Turing’s Speculations to an Academic Discipline: A History of AI Existential Safety 195
10. Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk 231