Why AI Terrifies the World’s Greatest Minds

AI’s most simple concept is terrifying

If it *only* reaches the same level of intelligence as us, it’s ability to operate at a far higher speed means that in 6 months it would have effectively operated for our equivalent of 500,000 years.

For comparison — it has taken us around 200,000 years to reach where we are now as a species

Let that sink in for a moment

In a period of 6 months for us, AI will have accumulated half a millions years worth of knowledge on top of everything we already know meaning that we will be unable to compete with them within days of them achieving the same levels of intelligence as us.

We won’t even have time to react because machines will have surpassed us literally within the blink of an eye.

In the same way we couldn’t relate to the earliest humans AI won’t be able to relate to us

This, at best relegates us to the role of how we treat pets now

Or worse — Ants

When ants stay out our way we leave them alone.