Author: Phil Torres
Phil Torres is an author, Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, founder of the X-Risks Institute, and freelance writer with articles in Skeptic, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, Salon, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His most recent book is The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse (Pitchstone Publishing, 2016).
It Matters Which Trend Lines One Follows: Why Terrorism Is an Existential Threat
There have never been so many ways civilization could fall–or so many with the power and the willingness to push.
There’s No Time to Wait
No guarantees, but there is good reason to fear that terrorism could become an existential threat.
Three Minutes before Midnight: An Interview with Lawrence Krauss about the Future of Humanity
One on one with a keeper of the Doomsday Clock, which has been tracking existential risk since 1947.
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