For what it’s worth, I think most people saying human extinction really do anticipate exactly that outcome, and aren’t just saying it for rhetorical purposes.
As an intuition pump, human created climate change has driven some species to extinction. An AI that doesn’t care about preserving humanity might kill the final holdouts in analogous fashion.
For what it’s worth, I think most people saying human extinction really do anticipate exactly that outcome, and aren’t just saying it for rhetorical purposes.
As an intuition pump, human created climate change has driven some species to extinction. An AI that doesn’t care about preserving humanity might kill the final holdouts in analogous fashion.