Humanity’s make-or-break century

From artificial intelligence, to nuclear weapons, bioengineered pathogens and climate change, humanity is juggling more existential risks than ever before. We’ve also generated more wealth, more collective intelligence, more advanced technologies, and more opportunities to shape the future in bright and sustainable ways. The decisions we make now will shape how the long-term future of humanity and intelligent life plays out.

What are the stumbling blocks? Where are humanity’s biggest blind spots in global decision making? And what’s all this talk of a make-or-break century got to do with your job, mortgage, family, kids, dating and mating prospects and future life-arc?

Join Elise Bohan, author of Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century to learn about the unique challenges and opportunities of life in the 21st century.

About the speaker: Elise Bohan is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (FHI). She holds a PhD in evolutionary macrohistory, wrote the world’s first book-length history of transhumanism as a doctoral student, and recently launched her debut book Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century (NewSouth, 2022). Her present interests include existential risk, and how to maximise positive outcomes in a rapidly changing world.