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More ability to kill everyone. That's harder to do with nukes.

That said, the actual forecast odds on metaculus are pretty similar for nuclear and AI catastrophies: https://possibleworldstree.com/



Prediction markets should not be expected to provide useful results for existential risks, because there is no incentive for human players to bet on human extinction; if they happen to be right, they won't be able to collect their winnings, because they'll personally be too dead.




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