"Manufactured risks are the product of human activity." Ulrich Beck

" A "risk society"
is a sociological concept describing a stage of modernity where society is increasingly defined by and organized around managing the hazards and insecurities it has produced itself through modernization and industrialization.

Self-produced risks: The primary source of risk is not nature, but human actions and the unintended consequences of modernization itself.

Individualization: Individuals are increasingly forced to confront these risks personally, with a greater emphasis on individual choice and responsibility in the face of larger, systemic problems

Ulrich Beck defines it as "a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself". "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_society

" The Study of Existential Risk
frames the rises and falls of civilisation around the idea of the “Goliath”, a hierarchy that dominates labour and energy through coercion and violence."

"Our research shows how there are nascent attempts to embed citizens into decision making by re-plumbing democracy, flattening hierarchies and constructing more dynamic feedback loops that have real consequence."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/nov/26/climate-disasters-devastating-planet-collective-action-against-corporations
#risks #diy #FossilFuels #energy #extinctions #climate #PlanetaryBoundaries #SafeLimits #guardrails #pollution #waste #catastrophe #ExistentialRisk #ManufacturedRisks #uncertainty #insecurity #individualisation #modernity #crisis #austerity #democracy #indifference

Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk

#AI #Superintelligence #AIRegulation #AISafety #Techlash #ExistentialRisk #FutureofLife #AIEthics #TechPolicy #OpenAI #Meta #GeoffreyHinton #SteveWozniak

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/10/22/global-leaders-ai-pioneers-demand-superintelligence-ban-citing-existential-risk-xcxwbn

Three realistic timelines for how self conscious AGI
https://wp.me/p84YjG-5Yu
#AGI #AI #AIsafety #Alignment #ExistentialRisk #Governance #TheBorg #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/three-timelines-self-conscious-agi-response/

This week I share a text message and infographic that improved decisions about #existentialRisk: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2pc4

#AntibioticResistance kills many.

Misusing #antibiotics makes matters worse.

IAPHS: https://iaphs.org/conference/conference-program

#Nudges in #Healthcare: https://nudgeunit.my.canva.site/symposium-2025-webpage

#medicine #health #psychology #ethics #Philosophy #xPhi #BioXPhi

Philosophy Key to Survival - Bryan Johnson and Doctor Mike

#ai #climatechange #existentialrisk

A powerful read in the Guardian on the history of societal collapse. A Cambridge researcher's 5,000-year analysis concludes that extreme inequality driven by elites is the primary driver.

The warning: "self-termination is most likely" for our interconnected global system.
The solution: genuine democracy & ending elite capture.

This is exactly the challenge our #10BillionFuture project aims to address.

#History #Politics #Inequality #ExistentialRisk

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse