Artificial Intelligence: The real scenario for the end of Humanity

At first, a machine learns to do its job better. It then acquires the ability to improve itself. Each upgrade accelerates the next, until its intelligence surpasses that of humans and its creators lose control. From that point on, the versions vary: the machine takes over critical infrastructure, deceives those attempting to stop it, or exhausts the planet’s resources while pursuing a goal incompatible with human survival. This is the basic narrative framework of artificial intelligence extinction scenarios. They are hypothetical sequences of events whose proponents argue should be taken seriously before the technology acquires unchecked power. Their influence, however,…