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If AI is more intelligent than humans, how is it bad?

Previous (and still existing) threats to humanity (for example, the atomic bomb) threaten to destroy humanity, or indeed the whole world, and replace it with nothing. That's bad.

But if AI is anything its opponents claim, it will eventually be better at thinking than we are, with, probably, a much lighter ecological footprint, and less impulses like fighting wars, meaning it will be able to last longer.

Should we not encourage that, even if it means we can suffer from it? What is the point of humanity anyway, if not the pursuit of knowledge?

[bambax]

And the downvotes come pouring in... ;-)

But can we try this simple thought experiment of thinking of AI as our children?

Our children will all eventually replace us, and maybe, hopefully, continue the good things that we started and improve the things we didn't quite get right.

But in any case, we will have absolutely no control over what our descendants do with their lives, or the world, after we passed.

Is AI really that different?