Future, AI, Ethics

Why Humans Will Strive to Create Strong AI Despite the Threat It Poses

Our technology or our nature?
Either we disappear or become one with them.

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Many people fear that a Strong AI will get out of control and enslave or destroy humanity.

Some of these fears are absurd, some are irrational, and some are justified. But their ratio does not matter. In any case, humans will strive to create a Strong AI. This article claims that its emergence depends only on the development of technology. When technology allows us to create it, it will be created.

If you believe that this will be the end of humanity, well, accept it as an inevitability since you cannot prevent it.

There are four closely related reasons for this:

1) the gradualness of AI threat,
2) the broad demand for AI products,
3) the international race for superiority in AI,
and finally,
4) the human desire to liberate from existential limitations.

So,

Reason #1: Gradualness of AI threat