21 December 2017
Neuro, cyber, slaughter: Emerging technological threats in 2017
Lucien Crowder
Nuclear weapons have threatened humanity for more than 70 years. Anthropogenic climate change, though largely unrecognized until recent decades, had its beginnings in the 19th century. Wouldn’t it be nice if advances in technology stopped throwing new problems at the world? No such luck. Several emerging technological threats could—soon enough—come to rival nuclear weapons and climate change in their potential to upend (or eliminate) civilization.
https://thebulletin.org/neuro-cyber-slaughter-emerging-technological-threats-201711378