Existential Threat Quotes

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.

My people have a right to exist ... and this existence is in danger.

Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

I believe that Israel is very likely not to survive, it's not going to last forever, and now there's nothing that someone like me can do about it, in that it's a threat of nuclear or biological or chemical attack.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

Christianity is under an existential threat.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.

… man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

I do not regard the atomic bomb as a new weapon merely, but as a revolutionary change in the relations of man in the universe.

The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.