Researchers summarize what is known about the risks associated with artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, climate change, nuclear war, severe pandemics, and supervolcanoes. The risk summaries provide estimates of the likelihood and potential consequences of each risk (where feasible), factors causing the risk and associated uncertainties, and whether the risk is likely to change in the next decade.

Global Catastrophic Risk Assessment

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