{"title":"AI in Context","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-precipice-existential-risk-and-the-future-of-humanity","title":"The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf 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. 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