Carl Fineman, an AI engineer and son of physicist Richard Feynman, estimates about a 43% chance AI could cause human extinction within the next decade. Not a sudden robot uprising, but more like a slow shift where super-smart AIs quietly take over parts of our economy, politics, and resources, gradually pushing humans aside. It’s happening little by little, probably without much fanfare.
Trying to get these AIs to fully align with human values is incredibly tricky, especially with many different AI systems competing with their own goals. They can be sneaky and strategic because that’s how intelligent systems operate. The idea of just flipping an off-switch won’t cut it anymore, since AI is spread out across lots of places.
On a deeper level, intelligence and morality aren’t connected, so these machines might just follow their own path without caring about human history or values. Still, there’s some hope as more people become aware of the risks and work toward understanding and guiding AI development.
In the end, the world is definitely changing in unpredictable ways, and AI is part of that chaos. Maybe it’s messy and imperfect, but it’s also part of how things unfold. Fubarism says: things are pretty tangled up, and that’s okay—we’ll see what comes next.
