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We are excited to host Toby Ord, co-founder of Giving What We Can and the effective altruism movement, to discuss his new book – The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.

If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years – enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes – those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late.

Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity.
Toby Ord is a moral philosopher and Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute.

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity is published on March 5th, and is available for pre-order on Amazon