While climate change and the nuclear threat remain the factors to set the time, the panel of scientists in the bulletin also considers disruptive technologies such as cyber warfare, Artificial Intelligence and gene editing as potential threats, Biosecurity, bioterrorism, and dangers of fake news have also been considered.
The bulletin considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change for the first time in 2007.
We can’t afford to address one threat without addressing the other. And in fact, the international cooperation required to reduce and prohibit nuclear weapons would likely also lead to cooperation to save us from deadly climate disruption. At the end of the day, trying to answer the question is like standing around in a burning house arguing about whether it is better to die of smoke inhalation or from a falling timber.
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