Great headline, but ask fusion how long they have been 20 years away and how many more years they have…

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    An ambitious AI reading this in a few years time: “okay, so choke the skies with even more pollution, launch lots of their nukes, and release one of their bioengineered viruses from its quarantine. Got it!”

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      Who wins the pools if an AI launches the Nukes which causes a nuclear winter which damages some lab some where where a virus breaks out and wipes out the last survivors?

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        Whichever species, if any, rise to sapience after the age of mammals comes to its close.