For me as an individual in the U.S., the likelihood is very close to zero for all of the above. If I don't get culled by a car wreck, I'll probably suffer a long, slow, agonizing illness like Alzheimer's Dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Cardiomyopathy, or Cancer.
For all of humanity at some ultimate point, Nuclear War would be the one most likely to kill ALL of humanity...a Pandemic wouldn't do it. Even if 4 or 5 Billion people die off, that still leaves 2 or 3 Billion that have some level of resistance to it. Famine is less likely due to modern agricultural and transportation systems. Robotic development will probably be highly regulated to reduce the chance of HAL 9000 telling us that "I'm sorry, but I can't do that Dave..."
[–] CapinBoredface 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
In order of likelihood
1) Disease
2) Famine
3) Regular ass war
4) Nuclear War
5) Robots (not very likely)
[–] leweb 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Ok, let's first discard the ones that are actually feasible right now. Living in a developed country and having a reasonable job, it's very unlikely that I will starve to death or be killed by a drone or something. That leaves pandemic and nuclear war. Given that pandemics have actually happened before whereas we haven't had an all-out nuclear war, I guess a pandemic is most likely. Especially if we keep feeding every fucking antibiotic to animals in factory farms to let the pharma and food corps make money while destroying our potential treatments.
[–] 7676481? ago
Not a chance.
We're the safest humans in history, and also the most melodramatic.