Study ranks humanity's gravest threats
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A study published in The Lancet ranked 17 threats to humanity, placing nuclear conflict and malicious artificial intelligence among the most consequential risks.
by The Lancet
“The Commission expands, quantifies, and legitimises a far broader range of interconnected dangers to humanity.”
Read a linked Editorial - 'Rethinking threats to human survival' tinyurl.com/ymhh7wdm
Read a linked Editorial - 'Rethinking threats to human survival' tinyurl.com/ymhh7wdm
October 12, 2026 at 7:24 AM
“The Commission expands, quantifies, and legitimises a far broader range of interconnected dangers to humanity.”
Read a linked Editorial - 'Rethinking threats to human survival' tinyurl.com/ymhh7wdm
Read a linked Editorial - 'Rethinking threats to human survival' tinyurl.com/ymhh7wdm
musk and all the AI oligarchs see the future now.
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
October 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
musk and all the AI oligarchs see the future now.
We can’t forget this concern. The number of ways we’re building to annihilate ourselves 😐
Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation | Simon Tisdall
This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
We can’t forget this concern. The number of ways we’re building to annihilate ourselves 😐
And speaking of the NYT, here's a report that's also an avoidance: I'm pretty confident that most of the death threats come from the right but this one plays it out as though they're evenly distributed. WE do know that most political violence in the USA comes from the right.
Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
And speaking of the NYT, here's a report that's also an avoidance: I'm pretty confident that most of the death threats come from the right but this one plays it out as though they're evenly distributed. WE do know that most political violence in the USA comes from the right.
again, we’re not regulating. we’re not doing even the basic due diligence to determine the impact of AI across all areas of public life incl war. the real near term risk to human life is here, not in some runaway agents and misalignment (which are bad too).
October 12, 2026 at 10:17 AM
again, we’re not regulating. we’re not doing even the basic due diligence to determine the impact of AI across all areas of public life incl war. the real near term risk to human life is here, not in some runaway agents and misalignment (which are bad too).
Reposted by The Lancet
What will shape the health of the next generation? The Lancet Commission on 21st Century Threats to Health identified 17 catastrophic threats, drawing on expertise from health, economics, security, governance, and technology. @thelancet.com
Read more: ms.spr.ly/63321aqvhJ
Read more: ms.spr.ly/63321aqvhJ
October 11, 2026 at 8:26 PM
What will shape the health of the next generation? The Lancet Commission on 21st Century Threats to Health identified 17 catastrophic threats, drawing on expertise from health, economics, security, governance, and technology. @thelancet.com
Read more: ms.spr.ly/63321aqvhJ
Read more: ms.spr.ly/63321aqvhJ
by Bram Büscher
Some thoughts on the latest @wwf.org.uk @wwfnederland.bsky.social Living Planet Report 2026.
While it warns against 'false hope', this is exactly what it keeps doing by trying to improve an inherently unsustainable system.
Time for Convivial Conservation.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-b...
While it warns against 'false hope', this is exactly what it keeps doing by trying to improve an inherently unsustainable system.
Time for Convivial Conservation.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-b...
The WWF Living Planet Report 2026 is out & makes interesting reading. While the 2024 report noted that 'the system is in peril' and that "Earth approaches dangerous tipping points pos...
The WWF Living Planet Report 2026 is out & makes interesting reading. While the 2024 report noted that 'the system is in peril' and that "Earth approaches dangerous tipping points posing grave threats...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-büscher-374a762b_the-wwf-living-planet-report-2026-is-out-ugcPost-7514293863608373249-Yfn5/
October 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Some thoughts on the latest @wwf.org.uk @wwfnederland.bsky.social Living Planet Report 2026.
While it warns against 'false hope', this is exactly what it keeps doing by trying to improve an inherently unsustainable system.
Time for Convivial Conservation.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-b...
While it warns against 'false hope', this is exactly what it keeps doing by trying to improve an inherently unsustainable system.
Time for Convivial Conservation.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bram-b...
Reposted by Lesley A. Hall
With AI we are seeing something relatively new, however, the industry is creating doubt and confusion not by downplaying fears or warnings, as in the previous two cases, but by amplifying them. Every warning about rogue AI is industry hype...
October 12, 2026 at 1:53 AM
With AI we are seeing something relatively new, however, the industry is creating doubt and confusion not by downplaying fears or warnings, as in the previous two cases, but by amplifying them. Every warning about rogue AI is industry hype...
Reposted by Chris Hanretty
I’ve read 4 articles this weekend about the potential catastrophic consequences of the huge investment in AI.
First up @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social.
First up @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social.
My Sunday Times column: Nearly twenty years after the global financial crisis, is AI brewing up a new one? The Bank of England’s financial policy committee is among those who are worried:
Unlike the last financial crisis, the next danger lurks in plain sight
www.thetimes.com/article/1e14...
Unlike the last financial crisis, the next danger lurks in plain sight
www.thetimes.com/article/1e14...
Unlike the last financial crisis, the next danger lurks in plain sight
We have been warned: the rapid change heralded by AI poses many market risks. Plus — John Healey keeps banks guessing before his budget
www.thetimes.com
October 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
I’ve read 4 articles this weekend about the potential catastrophic consequences of the huge investment in AI.
First up @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social.
First up @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social.