{"id":18719,"date":"2025-05-04T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/the-big-idea-can-we-stop-ai-making-humans-obsolete\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:37:31","slug":"the-big-idea-can-we-stop-ai-making-humans-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/the-big-idea-can-we-stop-ai-making-humans-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: can we stop AI making humans obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology will soon be able to do everything we do \u2013 only better. How should we respond?<\/p>\n

Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there\u2019s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn\u2019t require any hidden plots \u2013 if AI and robotics keep improving, it\u2019s what happens by default.<\/p>\n

How so? Well, AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers<\/a> and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions<\/a>. What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do, only better?<\/p>\n

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\nTechnology will soon be able to do everything we do \u2013 only better. How should we respond?
\nRight now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there\u2019s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: we might simply become obsolete. This wouldn\u2019t require any hidden plots \u2013 if AI and robotics keep improving, it\u2019s what happens by default.
\nHow so? Well, AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions. What place will humans have when AI can do everything we do, only better? Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technology will soon be able to do everything we do \u2013 only better. How should we respond? Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there\u2019s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: …<\/p>\n

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