My money is on Climate Change is going to kill us.

I think AI will speed it along, I think resource wars will speed it along, I think tyranny created by single industry countries will speed it along (when a government only has to please one industry that usually damages their commitment to democracy).

…but all of those things were happening before AI. Yes AI will speed them along, aid them, maybe even be used as part of them. But really they’re all a product of Capitalism and inequality. The wealthy were causing all those before AI came along to accelerate our problems.

If not AI, then the next bit coin, NFTs, tech boom, population increase, return of coal power, war with China, methane leak, Peter Thiel, Housing Crisis.

AI will kill us all? What’s the new and original means by which this is proposed? Is it going to text people to death? Single handedly take everyone’s jobs and refuse to give them back? Get robot scientists to poison everyone? …and is anyone promoting that? I just don’t think AI is that powerful/willful. Maybe that’s as semantic as saying Capitalism is killing us, not climate change, but it really is Capitalism driving all this.