Ibrahim Abubakar
Commission member; professor of infectious disease epidemiology, UCL
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“We’re starting from the premise that if you are a policymaker today, whether at the global multilateral level or at the national level, these are the potential threats that you could face, and this is the magnitude by which, if you act, you can actually make a difference.”
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Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
The Guardian reports on the new Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, which lists 17 major threats over the next 75 years. It names malicious use of AI, including bioweapons, and nuclear conflict as carrying risks of human extinction, while saying their likelihood is low and that each threat has a realistic route to action.