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We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't [1]

I've been thinking about just how bright our future could be, how science knows almost no limits to what we could achieve, to the durations that we could last, to the portion of the cosmos that we could discover and explore, and to the heights of quality in each of our lives or the types of achievements we could make. . . . It's this vision of this wonderful and vast future that's at stake that inspires me to think more carefully about the risks we face now and the ways that we might imperil all of this with our actions. What things can only our generation or our children's generation do in order to protect this seed of humanity so that we can grow into something even more amazing, to protect our present and thereby protect our future?

TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Toby Ord's Edge Bio Page [2]

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[1] https://www.edge.org/video/we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-to-ensure-that-we-dont
[2] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/toby_ord