在《Hidden Forces》第188集中，主持人Demetri Kofinas与牛津大学哲学高级研究员Toby Ord对话，讨论了人类长期未来面临的大问题以及可能提前终结我们存在的风险。节目旨在反思人类及其未来是否值得为之奋斗，以及这对人类行动、政治和全球合作意味着什么。

🌍 人类面临的生存风险包括核战争、自然和人为的流行病、生物恐怖主义、人工智能威胁、小行星撞击、气候变化和超级火山爆发。讨论从核战争威胁开始，分析了地缘政治因素如何增加其发生的可能性。

🔍 如何计算这些风险？我们应该关注哪些方面，如何确定优先级，以及如何减轻我们认为值得关注的风险？这些问题在节目中得到了深入探讨。

📚 Toby Ord在他的书《The Precipice》中聚焦于这些大问题，与主持人一起探讨了人类未来的价值以及我们应如何行动。

🤖 关于人工智能的风险，讨论指出，随着技术的发展，我们需要更加关注人工智能可能带来的潜在威胁，并思考如何防止这些风险。

🌱 节目还强调了全球合作在应对这些生存风险中的重要性，以及个人和集体可以采取的行动来减轻这些风险。

In Episode 188 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Toby Ord, a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University and author of “The Precipice,” a book that focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity’s long-term future and the risks which threaten to put a premature end to our existence.

The purpose of today’s conversation is first, to get you to reflect on this question of whether or not humanity and our future is worth fighting for, and second, to reflect on what that means in terms of human action, politics, and global cooperation. What are the existential risks that we face as a species? How do we calculate those risks? Where do we focus our attention, how do we prioritize, and finally, what can we do to mitigate those risks that we deem worthy of our attention?

For those interested in learning about existential risk factors, this part of the discussion begins near the forty-minute mark and focuses mainly on the threat of nuclear war and the geopolitical dimensions that escalate its likelihood. The overtime is spent primarily discussing the risks posed by both natural and engineered pandemics, biological terrorism, and artificial intelligence. The two also discuss asteroid impacts, climate change, and supervolcanic eruptions.

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Episode Recorded on 04/21/2021