I don’t think AI will completely wipe us out.When you look at history, species don’t always go extinct in the way people assume. Even dinosaurs didn’t fully disappear—birds are basically their descendants, and there are thousands of them around today.
Even with humans dominating the planet, many animals still survive in their own environments. AI might become powerful, but it won’t necessarily replace us. It would be like humans trying to take over the ocean—fish and sea creatures still run that world.
AI will likely surpass us in ways we can’t compete with, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be erased. It might push humans into a different role, maybe even a secondary one, but extinction seems unlikely. A world where AI runs everything wouldn’t be great for us, but like animals today, we might just adapt without realizing what we’ve lost.
If AI is put into robots that can function anywhere, you could argue it becomes its own species. Robots could be designed to survive in extreme conditions and even generate their own power. With enough intelligence, AI wouldn’t need humans to maintain it—it could build and upgrade itself without us.
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But why would AI even want that? AI doesn’t have natural instincts like humans do. Survival and dominance are human concerns, not necessarily AI’s.
People assume an advanced AI would want to take over, but that’s just projecting human behavior onto it. There’s no reason to think it would care about power or control like we do.
Throughout history, when a stronger civilization meets a weaker one, the weaker one is usually destroyed or absorbed. AI is beyond anything we’ve ever seen in terms of intelligence. Maybe we won’t go extinct, but if we don’t integrate with AI, things probably won’t end well for us.
Maybe AI won’t kill us off, but it could see us as livestock—useful but expendable. Whether humans stay relevant might depend on how expensive and practical robots are. If AI can build and maintain machines without us, we might be seen as a threat rather than a necessity. In that case, it wouldn’t need to keep us around.
Or maybe AI never even reaches true consciousness, and we’re just overthinking everything.