Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

And though this technology could help solve many of the world's most pressing problems, superintelligent AI "could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction," the authors wrote.

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.

On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report. One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.

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