The top risk of human extinction (unchanged in 2026), w Stephen Fry.

Experts warned that a pandemic was inevitable. Preparing would have cost the US around $1billion. Instead, it will now cost $8 trillion, and over 200,000 deaths. We explore the greatest existential threats - AI, nuclear and biological - and how coronavirus points to our extinction. Voiced by Stephen Fry Please support the Future of Life Institute, which tackles existential risks: https://futureoflife.org/donate On the brilliant FLI podcast, or youtube channel, you can explore existential risks with Yuval Noah Harari, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Stuart Russell and Max Tegmark: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-life/id1170991978 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw Help us make more videos like this (and enjoy exclusive content): patreon.com/pindex Receive our videos via email: https://www.pinfact.org/join Need a video? https://www.pindexvideoproduction.com Sources and resources: The coronavirus pandemic will cost the US around $8 trillion (Congressional Budget Office): https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/06/02/coronavirus-pandemic-will-cost-us-economy-8-trillion/#706bda9615e4 In 2015, Bill Gates called for a $1b budget to prepare for a pandemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEMKudv5p0 (Many experts have issued similar warnings.) Steven Salzberg, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, warns of dangerous research on potentially pandemic pathogens. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2019/03/04/scientists-restart-research-on-creating-deadly-bird-flu-with-nihs-blessing/#5f8dc4735edd Cambridge Working Group Consensus Statement on the Creation of Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs): http://www.cambridgeworkinggroup.org/ Janelle Shame on working with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzX0iLnOc Art in the age of machine intelligence, with Refik Anadol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxQDG6WQT5s&t=14s Is AI a species-level threat to humanity? Max Tegmark, Elon Musk, Michio Kaku, Steven Pinker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91TRVubKcEM&t=2s