Some computer scientists and social engineers are boldly predicting that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could kill all of humanity by the end of the decade.
But these scare tactics are overblown and ignore the real complexities involved.
Think about that statement. In 3.5 years from now, all of humanity will be gone from Earth.
On Tuesday, September 08, a 27-year-old named Jacob Coxon wrote on the social media platform Twitter/X, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Coxon is a former researcher who worked at Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic and OpenAI are the companies developing the programs that they believe could kill all humans in 3.5 years from now.
According to Coxon, he was so shook by what he saw that he quit his job at Anthropic to warn the world of the destruction coming down the pike.
He’s worried about advanced artificial intelligence, “the bioweapons it could create, and other interconnected global problems.”
Coxon sees a world where eight billion people gave up their will to survive and to live.
Eight billion souls of pure energy, Real Intelligence that from out of nothing created matter.
Hence, from that point onward, matter can no longer be created, nor can it be destroyed–only transformed into another form.
Matter that cannot be
So tell Coxon, Anthropic, and OpenAI that their bold prediction, simply put, is garbage.
It’s all bullshit.
The hype applies to an old computer science acronym: GIGO, Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Or, like Generation Z likes to say: Tell AI FAFO, fu@K around and find out.
Of course, people who know how things really work ask: What kind of crack pipe are they smoking? Sensible folks can see through the hype.
They’re getting high off their own supply.
AI developers have been making that moving prediction for over ten years, yet none have come true. Stay skeptical.