Can We Outsmart the Coming Catastrophes?
Experts warn of increasing catastrophic risks, from natural disasters to technological threats like AI gone rogue. We must study these risks and empower people with knowledge to prepare for and mitigate these planet-altering events.
Doomsday scenarios have always been the stuff of apocalyptic thrillers and cautionary tales. Think robot overlords, asteroids hurtling towards Earth, and viruses that turn us into, well, not our best selves. Yet, the line between fiction and tangible risk blurs at an unsettling rate.
Gabriela Frías Villegas, a researcher with UNAM's University of Human Rights Program, paints a sobering picture. “The increase in these 'catastrophic risks' is undeniable,” she says. “It's time to take the doomsday theorists a little more seriously.”
