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ChatGPT Makes Chilling Predictions For 2025

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This recent article describes a conversation with ChatGPT. The article highlights ChatGPT’s predictions for 2025, warning of potential global disasters if certain crises escalate. The chatbot identifies several major risks:

  1. Climate Crisis Escalation: Increased natural disasters could lead to widespread displacement, food shortages, and economic impacts.
  2. Geopolitical Tensions: Heightened conflicts, especially involving major powers, may cause global instability and humanitarian crises.
  3. Pandemic Resurgence: New or returning infectious diseases could overwhelm healthcare systems and disrupt societies.
  4. Technological Risks: Misuse of AI and cyberattacks could threaten critical infrastructure and national security.
  5. Economic Collapse: A severe global recession could emerge due to trade disputes, inflation, and unemployment.
  6. Social Unrest: Growing dissatisfaction with economic inequality and political systems could lead to protests and social fragmentation.

The chatbot stresses the importance of taking proactive measures to address these looming global challenges.

Current Poll Results: Catalysts of Change

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By now, readers of my Blog know that I have been researching the catalysts of human action for over 18 months. I have used a poll to gather insights from the community. I posted Results a while back, and am providing an update via this post. As a reminder of the topic, here is an excerpt from a Post back in April 2019:

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Advancing Human Development: The Catalysts Of Change

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More votes have come in since I last reported on my poll. The question based on history is this: what catalysts drive human action in the future? It took two world wars and a great depression to drive humans to act in ways that prevented reoccurrence and advanced human development. In a world that looks eerily similar to that era, we once again wonder about catalysts. Here are the current results.

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A Glimpse Into Your Views On Catalysts For Change

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As I mentioned in a recent Post, the global pandemic has altered how we think about our world. However, one thing is constant if not amplified by it: society needs to act if we hope to shape a future that advances human development. The rapid pace of innovation – riding on antiquated institutions – required our attention pre-pandemic. In a post-pandemic world, both of those factors are amplified. The inadequacies of our institutions are more visible now than ever; and innovation that may have unfolded over years is realized in months.

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