Lancet commission ranks AI misuse and nuclear war as top extinction-level threats to 2100
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Sunday 11 October 2026
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A Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, launched at the World Health Summit in Berlin on 11 October 2026, has identified malicious use of artificial intelligence and nuclear conflict as the only two of 17 catastrophic threats carrying what it calls genuine extinction potential by 2100.
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