The in near future, best free and open models will be distilled, built into every product, service and toaster you can imagine. I do hope humanity chooses wisely.
Crypto Wars 3.0
Authoritarian states push for technical capabilities to defeat encryption used by everyday users to protect their privacy. Chat control in the EU is an example of this:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
Authoritarian governments using AI to control the masses, foment societal divide through misinformation, and false climate change hysteria to distract from their bloodlust for wars.
imo fiat money undergirds climate change, wars, and societal divide (arguably misinfo too) to some meaningful degree, so in a way fiat money is the biggest threat. i'm mostly concerned about AI and wars right now though - both seem a matter of not if but when.
I think fiat money is not as direct a threat as the options in the poll are that's why I didn't put it here. I also think that humanity will easily come over it, which makes it a weaker opponent in comparison to all the options in the poll.
Fiat money will not easily be overcome just because it is such a potent power projection tool of nation states- and if you think nation states/governments will be dispensed with easily I say that is wrong. People - most people will clamour for government if there is none.
Government is fundamental to peoples security and wealth- yes there is a lot of bad government but without government people are even worse off.
If you disagree go live somewhere there is no government and see how you fare.
With easily I mean humanity does not face a direct threat from it. It's the crooked government that's culprit of devising the fiat devil. I'm not saying that "abolish the govs", I mean the restoration on governments or fiat money can be done more easily than it can be on the options in the poll.
Wars, and the governments that wage them lead to millions of deaths. The fact that there are individuals or small groups of people who control nuclear weapons feels very brittle indeed.