Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?
Mohamed El Louadi, Emna Ben Romdhane
TL;DR
This paper examines the existential risks posed by the development of superintelligent AI, highlighting potential threats to human survival due to uncontrollable cognitive superiority and ethical concerns.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's trajectory towards superintelligence, integrating theoretical insights and recent publications to assess existential risks.
Findings
AI could surpass human intelligence exponentially
Superintelligence may lead to human extinction
Ethical and existential implications are profound and urgent
Abstract
This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence. Drawing on Irving J. Good and Nick Bostrom's theoretical work, plus recent publications (AI 2027; If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), it explores AGI and superintelligence. Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien. Human extinction may result not from malice, but from uncontrollable, indifferent cognitive superiority.
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