Biggest existential threats to all humanity?

[verreauxi]

These are usually my top two:

-- Global climate change, and the resulting social destabilization, skirmishes/wars over land/freshwater as well as economic upheaval.

-- Rise of authoritarianism/extremism within and across borders in terms of armed conflicts, wars, and humanitarian immiseration.

But lately, I have one more...

-- Artificial Intelligence + unrestrained capitalism, and its resulting replacement of the human workforce with automation, leading to massive and unequal divide of wealth and poverty.

Feel free to add your own...

 

[Tigger]

Kopites

 

[summerisle]

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

 

[Donegal blue]

Us. The Human race.

 

[LostLegend]

@davek

 

[Kurt.]

Jumped up grass cutters

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Greed

 

[Groucho]

That orange nobhead in America

 

[Goodison87]

That orange nobhead in America

Agreed, he’s just Tangoed the globe…

 

[summerisle]

Yer Ma.

 

[Tommy Chong]

-- Artificial Intelligence + unrestrained capitalism, and its resulting replacement of the human workforce with automation, leading to massive and unequal divide of wealth and poverty.

Never mind that, mate...

AI is evolving at an ALARMING pace in other areas as well:


They initially thought it would take at least a decade before it got this advanced.
It's not long now :
View attachment Paradox.mp4

 

[Rita_Poon]

Stupidity.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Bees being wiped out.

 

[evertondotcom]

Social media

 

[Bluesaint]

Bees being wiped out.

This. People seem to worry about wars and the rise of AI, and rightly so, but if the bees go they'll take us with them, and that's a very likely scenario.