Ukraine, Physicist Tegmark: ‘One in Six Chance of Worldwide Nuclear War,’ Musk Agrees ‘Probability is Rising Fast’

With the Russia-Ukraine war still raging, physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has estimated the odds of global nuclear war in the near future at one in six. The Swedish-American MIT professor made the prediction in an Oct. 8 post on LessWrong, a rationalist community blog created by American artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. Tegmark article and social media post went viral. SpaceX founder Elon Musk is among those who share Tegmark’s concerns. “Nuclear war probability is rising rapidly,” Musk wrote in response to the Tweet from Tegmark linking to his blog post. Tegmark had praised Musk for “urging de-escalation.” Thanks…