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Humanity today faces a stark choice: to continue down a path that leads to certain extinction or to move towards a future filled with abundance and prosperity. The speaker outlines two distinct trajectories—marked as "doom" and "utopia"—to illustrate this dilemma. The doom trajectory suggests that, if current AI development continues unchecked, humanity will face a 100% risk of extinction. In contrast, the utopia trajectory, characterized by the existence of AI that is significantly smarter than humans, holds the promise of resolving critical global issues like poverty, disease, and political conflict.