This headline can be shortened - "Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future". It is quite hard to take a serious look at the future and not see catastrophe, there

This headline can be shortened - "Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future". It is quite hard to take a serious look at the future and not see catastrophe, there are so many threats and the monkeys responsible for dealing with them are barely capable of managing a good day. We're still facing regular 1%-style risks of nuclear war. Eventually one of those trips. We're better off forging ahead. The regulators, if they get involved, will do what they do and freeze the status quo. The status quo isn't sustainable; we can't afford that in the long term. Even if we do accidentally replace ourselves with robots, at least the robots have a better chance of behaving like civilised, rational beings.