The biggest extinction risk of all of those was AI, according to the study. The best arguments for it come from a group of people that is so insanely niche. They do have access to like the cutting edge models and have hands on experience with them in a way that I suspect super forecasters might struggle to get. It's forecasting existential risks, evidence from a long run forecasting tournament.
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