Humans might go extinct very soon after AI because AI accelerates technological progress and there was an extinction technology ahead of us. That is, we would’ve gone extinct from the same technology without the AI in 2500, but 2500 is “reached” a decade after AI, so it looks like the AI was the cause.
(This point is from Paul Christiano iirc.)
Note that AI needn’t take over (voluntarily or forcefully) to accelerate technological progress like this.
Humans might go extinct very soon after AI because AI accelerates technological progress and there was an extinction technology ahead of us. That is, we would’ve gone extinct from the same technology without the AI in 2500, but 2500 is “reached” a decade after AI, so it looks like the AI was the cause.
(This point is from Paul Christiano iirc.)
Note that AI needn’t take over (voluntarily or forcefully) to accelerate technological progress like this.