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A.I. and Human Extinction: Are We Living in End Times?

An online conversation and audience Q&A on whether AI poses an existential threat to humanity, presented by the UK journal The Philosopher and hosted on Zoom. The speaker is Émile P. Torres, a philosopher and historian of existential risk,

Starts

2026-09-21T18:00:00+00:00

Organizer

The Toronto Philosophy Meetup

Location

Online event

An online conversation and audience Q&A on whether AI poses an existential threat to humanity, presented by the UK journal The Philosopher and hosted on Zoom. The speaker is Émile P. Torres, a philosopher and historian of existential risk, superintelligence and eschatology, whose forthcoming book is a history of the science and ethics of human extinction. Alexis Papazoglou, managing editor of the LSE British Politics and Policy blog, moderates. The discussion takes up recent public warnings about superintelligence, government inaction, and the overlap between MAGA politics and Silicon Valley end-times talk. Free to attend, with an optional donation.