E19 - How Will The World End?

06/08/2025 6 min Episodio 19
E19 - How Will The World End?

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Episode Synopsis

Humanity faces a multitude of potential global catastrophic and existential risks, ranging from cosmic threats like gamma-ray bursts and asteroid impacts to natural terrestrial hazards like supervolcanoes, and human-caused dangers such as nuclear war, severe pandemics, and advanced artificial intelligence. However, how should we assess the likelihood and potential consequences of these events, especially given the lack of historical precedent for many of them and the deep uncertainties surrounding others?