That sound you hear is not the world ending – it’s liberalism being monstered | Waleed Aly - The Guardian

A Lancet Commission puts the odds of humanity’s extinction this century at “non-zero” as the threats of nuclear war and weaponised artificial intelligence loom. BERLIN – As candidates to become WHO director-general squabbled in the halls of the InterContinental, a three-year effort by the Lancet on future health threats delivered a sombre if uncertain warning: There is a chance, however small, that humanity will not survive this century – and we may all die.