The main risks for humanity are named

Nuclear weapons and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for criminal purposes topped the list of major risks to humanity. The Lancet journal writes about this.

According to the study, the world's population is threatened by more than 300 different factors. The authors of the work divided them into four categories, the first two of which could lead to the extinction of humanity. The first category included a nuclear conflict that could cause mass starvation due to a nuclear winter, and the use of AI to develop biological weapons.

The second category consists of threats that could result in the loss of more than a billion years of healthy life by 2100. These included air pollution, antimicrobial resistance, child malnutrition, climate change, halting international health aid, conventional armed conflict, alcoholism and high blood pressure. It also includes income inequality, low levels of education, pandemics, obesity, mental health problems, smoking and unhealthy aging.