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Ask HN: Why isn't AI viewed as a way to prevent humanity from going extinct?

1•amichail•1h ago
For example, maybe in 25 years, there will be mass brain fog due to repeated COVID infections.

If AI is already doing most people's jobs by then, then there will be a greater chance that humanity would be able to recover from this widespread decline in human intelligence.

Comments

capestart•1h ago
If AI’s handling most jobs, it could def help us bounce back from stuff like brain fog. But also, kinda scary if AI takes over too much, ya know? Definitely food for thought
MrVandemar•1h ago
The number of (self-inflicted) existential threats facing Homo sapiens right now and all you come up with is "mass brain fog"?

AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthropocentric hubris, etc. I seriously doubt anything can, let alone a large language model.

joules77•59m ago
Why not?

These are not new problems. They are ancient and different people have dealt with them with different levels of success. AI has access to all those strategies.

So maybe one day AI dawns Mr. Rogers persona to solve one problem and Abe Lincoln to solve another.

It can do it at scales no individual or group can, so there is potential to nudge the entire chimp troupe in directions never possible before, in ways that "will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills".

techblueberry•19m ago
I think most AI boosters suggest exactly this?
dtagames•17m ago
When airplanes were invented, it was believed they would end wars. Really.

AI tools are tools, like typewriters and airplanes. Problems that people cause in the world (and can but don't fix) are just that: people problems.

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