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Humans overestimate their own influence over natural events as well as the risk from their own creations. Human extinction from a man made catastrophe is virtually impossible given all our species has endured over millenia
Not a single one of today's major anthropogenic X-risks -- such as nuclear war/winter, genetically engineered bioweapons, or AI -- existed 80 years ago. History is a very poor guide to technological X risks.
History shows technological advances, or what you are stating as anthropogenic risks, almost always turn out to be more innocuous than originally thought. 1/3
Eg. The eruption of Krakatoa which affected global weather for 12-18 months, was almost equivalent to the global nuclear arsenal being detonated simultaneously in a single location. Implausible given payload delivery constraints 2/3
I don't know how much I buy the nuclear winter hypothesis which were based on models that need a serious re-visiting. Some scientists are going as far as calling it more like a "winter autumn" which would still require both the US and Russia to detonate their complete arsenal.
What we have today is machine learning and we're still quite far away from generalized AI. A modern desktop computer should be able to create a full simulation of a bee brain but we have yet to see one made.
Exactly. It's like saying that there is no risk of death/injury from keeping an adult bear as a pet because nothing catastrophic happened while he was a baby. We didn't have our current capacity for destruction until very recently.
True no doubt at present man is his own apex predator
If a handful of people hunker down with enough food to last a long time they can survive nuclear winter or pandemic, even if the worst case scenarios are correct. I could believe either of those could kill a large majority of people, but i don't see them causing extinction
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