Ethics of existential risk

The ethics of existential risk concernsis the study of the ethical issues related to existential risk, including questions of how bad an existential catastrophe would be, how good it is to reduce existential risk, preciselyrisk, why those things are as bad or good as they are, and how this differs between different specific existential risks. There areis a range of different perspectives on these questions, and these questions have implications for how much to prioritise reducing existential risk in general and which specific risks to prioritise reducing.

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