If you believe that the risk of human extinction over the next century is something like one in six (as Toby Ord suggests is a reasonable figure in his book The Precipice)
To be precise, Toby Ord’s figure of one in six in ″The Precipice″ refers to the chance of existential catastrophe, not human extinction. Existential catastrophe which includes events such as unrecoverable collapse.
To be precise, Toby Ord’s figure of one in six in ″The Precipice″ refers to the chance of existential catastrophe, not human extinction. Existential catastrophe which includes events such as unrecoverable collapse.