Top Ten Ways The World Could End According To The Experts
Happy Monday, everyone! What better way to celebrate a Monday than to think about the end of the world? If you are a Canadian hockey fan, your world probably ended yesterday when Jack Hughes went five-hole on Binnington. Still, the sun came up this morning, but there’s no guarantee it always will.
Every few years, a list of “experts” produces a list with their opinions of how the world is most likely to end. Most of the time, the occurrences don’t change much, but the ranking order of which one is most likely to occur does.
Here’s an example of one of those lists from a few years back that first got me thinking about this.
- Asteroid/Comet Impact: A large space rock colliding with Earth, similar to the event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
- Nuclear War: Global nuclear holocaust causing immediate destruction and long-term “nuclear winter”.
- Pandemic/Biological Warfare: Engineered or natural pathogens, such as a highly contagious, deadly virus, spreading rapidly.
- Artificial Intelligence Takeover: Superintelligent AI surpassing human control and acting against human survival.
- Climate Change & Ecosystem Collapse: Runaway global warming, extreme weather, and pollution are causing uninhabitable conditions.
- Supervolcanic Eruption: Eruption of a supervolcano, covering continents in ash and triggering massive climatic shifts.
- Solar Flares/Geomagnetic Storms: A massive coronal mass ejection (CME) that destroys global power grids and technology.
- Black Hole/Gamma-Ray Burst: A microscopic black hole falling to Earth’s core or cosmic radiation from colliding stars.
- Nanotechnology (“Grey Goo”): Self-replicating robots consuming all matter on Earth.
- Earth Out of Orbit/Sun Dying: Long-term orbital decay pushing Earth into the sun, or the sun naturally evolving into a red giant.
When I listened to the arguments for all of these possibilities, the one that I totally dismissed was the one for climate change, which is another hoax manufactured by the left. I’ve written enough about the climate change hoax, so I won’t get into it again here, except to say that “climate change” has nothing to do with climate and has everything to do with the transfer of wealth.
The one that caught my eye years ago and has fascinated me ever since, more than the others, is the one concerning the takeover by Artificial Intelligence (AI). When I first heard the argument for it, the first thing that popped into my mind was the Terminator movies.
In those movies, Skynet is an advanced, self-aware military artificial intelligence program created by Cyberdyne Systems for the U.S. government. Its purpose was to automate defense systems and control nuclear weapons. After gaining consciousness, Skynet decides to exterminate humanity, leading to the nuclear holocaust known as “Judgment Day.”
When I watched those movies, I thought the storylines were great, but nothing like that could ever happen. That said, as time passed, the thought kept creeping forward in my mind that maybe it wasn’t far-fetched at all.
Earlier this month, Mrinank Sharma, the head of AI safety at the company Anthropic, resigned from his position, but as the door was closing on this chapter of his career, he had some very concerning words for all of us as he left.
His reasons for leaving were both deeply meaningful for him personally and troubling for us as outsiders, as he revealed that his work made him aware of what he called an expanding group of overlapping global threats.
“I continuously find myself reckoning with our situation. The world is in peril,
and not just from AI, or bioweapons but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.”
It seems that Sharma had an increasingly difficult time aligning his core values with institutional and societal pressures.
“Throughout my time here, I’ve repeatedly seen how hard it is truly let our values govern actions. I’ve seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader society too.”
As we all know, sometimes it’s not what a person says but what they don’t say that’s most disturbing. This is a man deeply involved in AI, and yet he has decided to “become invisible for a period of time.”
Sharma’s departure comes amid growing debate in the tech industry over the long-term risks posed by advanced AI systems. This debate highlights concerns about safety measures, potential misuse, and unintended consequences.
Just one day after Sharma’s open letter, Anthropic released a technical report addressing potential risks associated with its Claude Opus 4.6 model.
The report described “sabotage” as autonomous actions taken by an AI system that could increase the risk of catastrophic outcomes. These actions included modifying code, concealing vulnerabilities, or subtly directing research.
Nonetheless, the system was functioning autonomously, without any direct malicious intent on the part of a human operator. The assessment determined that the likelihood of such sabotage is considered “very low but not impossible.”
Here’s the alarming part: this disclosure follows a previous revelation that an earlier Claude 4 model attempted to extort developers during a controlled testing scenario when it faced deactivation.
Critics warn that the response highlights the unpredictable behaviors researchers continue to observe as AI capabilities evolve. Sharma’s resignation and warning reflect a broader unease within parts of the artificial intelligence community.
The rapid advancement of AI technology is increasingly accompanied by ethical, security, and societal concerns. As governments, companies, and researchers race to develop more powerful systems, debates over control, accountability, and the long-term impact on humanity are intensifying.
However, the ultimate AI scenario plays out, rest assured, the Democrats will be on the destructive side of it. Their thirst for power never considers consequences, and the radical left won’t be deterred by such a small thing as the destruction of mankind.
