Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in the news a lot, particularly in the last year. And we hear great proclamations from scientists and noted personalities. These proclamations range from "It will be the savior of humanity" all the way to "It will be the end of humanity".
It is reasonable to conclude that the "purpose" of the universe is to create and evolve intelligence. Actually "purpose' is way too strong a word for most people, but all the scientific evidence lead us to believe that the laws of our universe destine it to create and evolve intelligence. For humans to think that will are the end point of evolution would be the height of conceit. It appears likely the human species will be superseded by a higher AI intelligence simply because AI can now evolve faster than humans. The best we can hope is for humans to form a symbiotic relationship with AI. To that extent, it may be "manageable", as some suggest. Let us approach our place in the evolutionary tree with humility. If the human species is eventually superseded by some form of AI, then we will have played our role in the evolutionary destiny of the universe - "creating and evolving intelligence". Fortunately, we are capable of nudging that evolution is a positive direction. Let us strive to do so. This will have to be a coordinated effort of all of humanity, not one country vs another or one corporation vs another. We have the technical intelligence to do so. The question is "do we have the social intelligence to cooperate sufficiently to do so?" If we do, we may be able to continue playing a role in evolving intelligence long into the future.
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