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>>treebr+(OP)
Does anyone know potential causal chains that bring about the extinction of mankind through AI? Obviously aware of terminator, but what other chains would be possible?

>>sveme+Ed
To borrow a phrase from Microsoft's history, "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." AI proves to be incredibly useful and we welcome it like we welcomed the internet. It becomes deeply embedded in our lives and eventually in our bodies. One day, a generation is born that never experiences a thought that is not augmented by AI. Sometime later a generation is born that is more AI than human. Sometime later, there are no humans.

>>jetrin+wj
People wouldn't even get a vaccine injection because there were supposedly Bill Gates's microchips in them. Now you expect they'll be flocking to get these because they have Bill Gates's microchips in them?

Actually, I could see that happening.

Maybe it's time to give AGI a chance to run things anyway and see if it can do any better. Certainly it isn't a very high bar.

>>daxfoh+St
It's the same thing with smartphones / general compute. Everyone will eventually find they have to use it to be useful in the modern world.