Thinking with Whitehead about Existential Risk

This article argues that the conceptual framework of “existential risk” (Bostrom), while heuristically valuable for thinking and making concrete speculations regarding possible human-eradicating future events, nevertheless entails certain pitfalls and blindspots arising from its in-built probabilistic and categorial biases. A process-oriented (Whiteheadian) may prove a valuable supplement, able to counterbalance some of these (ultimately potentially disastrous) effects.