My thesis is not so "drastic", or "outlandish", it is a quiet pitiful death for our species as it enters a while(true) loop that our species never escapes from. It doesn't require "superintelligence" or AGI or any other technology that doesn't already exist today, and it doesn't rapidly alter behaviors that have existed since the dawn of the digital age and surveillance capitalism. That's what makes it so insidious, AI will act like a warm, familiar, and comfortable blanket and humanity will go to sleep and never wake up.

Humanity isn't murdered. It surrenders.

My thesis is not "drastic", or "outlandish" it is a quiet pitiful death for our species as it enters a while(true) loop that our species never escapes from and it doesn't require "superintelligence" or AGI or any other technology that doesn't already exist today, and it doesn't rapidly alter behaviors that have existed since the dawn of the digital age and surveillance capitalism. That's what makes it so insidious, AI will act like a warm, familiar, and comfortable blanket and humanity will go to sleep and never wake up.

Humanity isn't murdered. It surrenders.