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Question
Will artificial intelligence lead to the end of humankind?
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Yes, artificial intelligence will end humankind

AI is designed to be more intelligent than humans. They are programmed to focus on one job; they will not think twice about eliminating any barriers, including humans.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. AI will improve itself
    AI research is making great strides toward its long-term goal of human-level or superhuman intelligent machines. If it succeeds in its current form, however, that could be catastrophic for the human race.
  2. Humankind will get in the way of an AI’s goals
    A popular example is called the paperclip maximizer hypothesis, which was popularized by AI thinker Nick Bostrom. Imagine we gave an ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) the simple task of maximizing paper clips...