Artificial Intelligence will not lead to human extinction

I don’t think AI will lead to us being extinct because when you look at evolutionary history species do not usually go ‘completely extinct.’

Even dinosaurs did not completely go extinct, variants of dinosaurs like Avian dinosaurs survived and continued to flourish, 18,000 of which still exist today.

Even though humans may be top of the food chain not all animals have gone extinct because of humans.

Despite general human dominance, animals continue to enjoy dominance in their own environments.

AI will similarly fail to compete in human-specific environments in the same way we cannot compete against primates in jungles.

I mean if you stuck a human in the wild in present day Earth unless they were Bear Grylls or Ray Mears they probably aren’t going to be able to compete against animals.

No matter how advanced AI will get can never be human. It may colonise the Solar System and do things we are incapable of doing but it can’t be better at being the human species than the humans species.

AI trying to survive without humans would be like humans trying to survive without animals. They would be too tied up in the ecosystem to get rid of the other species.

I think what would more likely happen in an ‘AI takes over scenario’ is that AI would be the ‘main character species’ and humans would become second class like animals.

A world where AI is the main species would be a worse world for us but it wouldn’t be the end of all of us and like animals we may not know any different.

I think the level of concern is fully justified. I just don’t think it will lead to full human extinction. But it could suck in the same way it sucks for some species of animals.