AI and nuclear war: "Humanity could end in 2100". The study

As The Guardian explains, a new assessment of global risks has identified 17 for the next 75 years. The threats were chosen based on two factors: having the potential to result in the loss of a large number of years of healthy life, but also presenting possible solutions.

The study was drawn up by experts from the Lancet Commission on global threats to health in the 21st century who explained how all these threats are connected: for this reason, the approach should be 360 ​​degrees. “Decisions made by leaders today will determine the health and well-being of the next generation,” said Professor Christopher Murray, co-chair of the commission and director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

Ibrahim Abubakar, a member of the commission and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at University College London (UCL), said: "We don't start from the idea of ​​saying: 'Look, we want to scare you: there are a number of threats facing humanity'. Instead we start from the assumption that, if you are making political decisions today, whether at a global multilateral level or a national level, these are the potential threats that you could face and this is the extent to which, by taking action, you could actually make a difference."

The list will be updated every year. “We started this work three years ago thinking there were three big threats: conflict, climate and pandemics,” Murray said: “In reality, the number of threats we need to worry about is much broader, and governments really need to dedicate economic resources and personnel to forecasting, prevention and preparedness to address this more diverse set of risks.”