A Special Issue of the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies (JEET) has been published on the occasion of the conference “Existential Threats and Other Disasters: How Should We Address Them” held on 30-31 May of 2024 in Budva, Montenegro.
The Special Issue contains the following articles:
- Preventing Existential Risks and Other Disasters – Peter Singer, Vojin Rakić, Vardit Ravistky, Roger Crisp
- Civilizational Virtue, Civilizational Autonomy, and Existential Risks – Anders Sandberg
- Extraterrestrial and Other to Humans Unobservable and Incomprehensible Forms of Cognition and Morality: An X-risk or AN X-opportunity? – Vojin Rakić, Ana Katić
- On Artificial Superintelligence and the Problem of Charismatic Extinction Threats – Nicholas Agar, Murilo Vilaça
- Are Children The Future? Longtermism, Epistemic Discounting, and Pronatalism – James Hughes
- Reframing Low Birth Rates as an Existential Opportunity – Josephine Johnston
- Polarizing biotechnologies and a polarized public new challenges for global calls for public engagement in human genome editing – Oliver Feeney
- Ethical analysis of purported risks and disasters involving suffering, extinction, or a lack of positive value – Simon Knutsson
- The Strange Case of the Artificial Placenta, The Harms of Depicting Ethical Challenges as Existential Threats – Alice Cavolo
- Creating Superhumans, Disrupting Human Nature, Can Genome Editing Endanger Our Species? – Aleksandra Kornienko
The Guest Editors are:
- Vojin Rakić
- Vardit Ravitsky
- Roger Crisp
- Nicholas Agar
- Oliver Feeney
- Slobodan Perović
