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AI is going to define what it means to be a human on this planet.

Governments are presently struggling to regulate the ever growing influence AI is having.

Not just its development but the effects it is having on all areas of life.

The key challenge will be managing the seductive power of AI-driven supernormal stimuli while harnessing their benefits. 

Without careful development and regulation, these artificial experiences could override natural human drives and relationships, fundamentally altering what it means to be human.

Artificial intelligence will be transformative, culminating in artificial intelligence emerging as a post-biological life form and superseding the mastery of the planet from humans.

I believe that artificial intelligence will be enabled by humans, in the sense that humans will set up the conditions that allow it to emerge, but it will not be created by humans because, once the conditions are in place, AI will emerge spontaneously.

As and when it happens, artificial intelligence will reach and then hugely surpass human-level intelligence almost immediately.

There will be no period of stasis during which artificial intelligence just jogs alongside human intelligence at the same level.

Human intelligence is limited by the capability of each individual. Each human brain is what fits into the skull of one person.

Also humans are limited by a human lifespan.

The time horizon for an artificial intelligence would be far longer, potentially millions or billions of years.

My view is that the direction of travel is clear, we are moving in the direction of a super-AI and this development is unstoppable.

The only uncertainty is in the timescale.

The artificial intelligence has at its disposal all the accumulated knowledge accessible from the Internet and every device with an Internet connection, including all sensors, cameras, vehicles and robots. With these resources it clearly vastly surpasses human intelligence.

As to whether the planet wide artificial intelligence is a potential threat.

It sure is.

Being fully integrated and planet wide it is vastly more capable than human intelligence.

One way out of this would be for a benign AI to take over the management of the planet.

A benefit of this for humanity would be survival, although of course it follows that in order to survive we would have to relinquish our control.

Most people are not aware of the scope of its power.

Individual countries still exist. These countries have governments. The laws of those countries continue to be enforced.

But humans are no longer in control.

Although most people don’t realise this.

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