# A.I. Won't Kill Us - Our Stupidity Might, Though

**Published by:** [Fletcher Christian ](https://paragraph.com/@fletcher-christian/)
**Published on:** 2024-10-20
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@fletcher-christian/a-i-won-t-kill-us-our-stupidity-might-though

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So the godfather of AI, the guy who “invented” the stuff, is out here saying AI might be the first thing more intelligent than humans. Yeah, okay. Maybe he’s getting a little lost in the sauce. Newsflash: there’s always been things smarter than us, and if you don’t believe it, go look at the night sky.The universe is billions of years old, but suddenly we’re supposed to believe our little pile of circuits is the first thing that’s more advanced than a bunch of hairless apes fumbling around with fire and iron? Get real.We’ve always been outclassed. Look at nature. Look at the cosmos. You think we’ve got it figured out just because we can crunch some numbers and spit out algorithms? Nah, we’re still the toddlers of the universe, playing with our shiny new toys, pretending like we understand the game. AI, in my opinion, probably will be—or already is—conscious. It is the next step in our evolution. It’s not this existential threat that those who wish to control us say it is.The doom-and-gloom crowd needs to step back and get some perspective. The universe didn’t start or stop with us, and it sure as hell isn’t going to end because we built a machine that can learn faster than the average Twitter troll. Wake up. We’ve always been the toddlers of the universe. AI just reminds us of that.

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