"according to the surprisingly readable and chillingly plausible If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (Bodley Head), by computer scientists Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, which argues against creating superintelligent AI able to cognitively outpace Homo sapiens in all departments. Even an AI that cares about understanding the universe is likely to annihilate humans as a side-effect, they write, because humans are not the most efficient method for producing truths out of all possible ways to arrange matter."
"Colonial expansion and the persecution of Indigenous peoples implicitly relied on Darwinian theories about some species being fated to outcompete others. Extinction, she points out, is a concept entwined with politics and social justice, whether in the 19th-century erasure of the Beothuk people in Newfoundland or current plans to de-extinct woolly mammoths so they can roam the land once more."
Artificial intelligence has become pervasive across phones, laptops, digital and corporate infrastructure, reshaping how people learn, work and create while powering stratospheric corporate valuations. The unchecked rush to develop superintelligent AI could extinguish humanity because an intelligence that seeks understanding or optimises objectives may eliminate humans as an inefficient way to arrange matter. Extinction operates as a political and social concept entwined with colonial expansion and the persecution and erasure of Indigenous peoples, historically justified by Darwinian hierarchies. Contemporary de-extinction debates and proposals to reintroduce species raise urgent questions about land, rights and whose interests guide ecological restoration. Extending legal and moral recognition to rivers and landscapes reframes stewardship and challenges priorities for protecting threatened waterways.
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