Lot's of usual alarmism and hysteria! Lot's of hot air!
We have learnt to live with nuclear weapons for over 80 years!
Of course, machine learning and AI is now a global threat too!
Of course, the Covid-19 pandemic is cited! Fact is that SARS-CoV-2 was a fairly harmless virus, but it spread quickly. The lab leak was the most dangerous aspect of it.
I also have serious doubts about the claim "first decline in global life expectancy since 1950"!
"... Two of these major catastrophic threats [???] have extinction potential: nuclear conflict [???] and the malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI) [???]. ...
A good example of the challenge facing the Commission is the assessment of the impact of climate change [???]. ..."
"The world has lived through an extraordinary global health threat, the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to nearly 20 million deaths, staggering economic losses, a generational decline in human capital, and the first decline in global life expectancy since 1950 [???] (the first year when UN estimates were published). ..."
"... The global community and many nations have launched commissions, task forces, and panels to draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. ..."
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