Can This Book Prevent Human Extinction? | VICE World News Meets

Created In Partnership With BasicBooks Are we on the precipice of an AI-induced lock-in of authoritarian values? Will we be wiped out by a new pandemic caused by artificially created pathogens or perhaps face civilisation collapse from the devastating effects of climate change? Future people could outnumber those alive today by 10,000 to 1, which means a lot of lives are in the balance. So if we want to achieve the most good with our own existence, should we not be doing more to help them rather than those at present? This is the central argument of a new book by William MacAskill, What We Owe The Future, in which he lays out his reasoning for taking a longer mast approach. VICE World News sent Iman Amrani to ask him some questions about long term, why future generations are disenfranchised and what we can do about it today. Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don't even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE. Connect with VICE: Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: https://bit.ly/3dFkkmL More videos from the VICE network: https://bit.ly/3fWNVrZ Click here to get the best of VICE daily: http://bit.ly/1SquZ6v Like VICE on Facebook: https://bit.ly/31Oovu2 Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Follow us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3yfssUq Follow us on TikTok: https://bit.ly/3QJnwiD The VICE YouTube Network: VICE: https://www.youtube.com/VICE MUNCHIES: https://www.youtube.com/MUNCHIES VICE News: https://www.youtube.com/VICENews VICELAND: https://www.youtube.com/VICELANDTV Vice Life: https://www.youtube.com/Broadly Noisey: https://www.youtube.com/Noisey Motherboard: https://www.youtube.com/MotherboardTV VICE Sports: https://www.youtube.com/NOC i-D: http://www.youtube.com/iDmagazine Waypoint: https://www.youtube.com/WaypointVICE #VICENews #News