Humans are the noblest of all creations, but they are not invincible. Natural calamities, like tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, storms, droughts, and wildfires, show the vulnerabilities of humans. Likewise, outbreaks like plagues, Black Death, smallpox, flu, HIV, and COVID-19 also affect humanity to the greatest extent. While these catastrophes are not created by humans, some are manmade. The technology that humans create poses unparalleled risk to their existence – this is the risk that can make us extinct or cause some type of adversity that limits our ability to grow and thrive enduringly. For example, the creation of the atomic bomb posed a high level risk to our existence, and after this invention the humans have only increased problems for themselves. It is difficult to estimate the exact percentage of existential risk to humans; rough estimates indicate that existential risk due to nuclear war and climate change is approximately. 0.1%. The chances of an outbreak causing the same type of catastrophe are at an alarming rate of 3%. One might think that these tragedies make humans extinct. These estimates are not small, and possibly humans could invent or develop new technologies that increase the likelihood of existential risks. AI is the…
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