Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22814v2
• Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:18:13 GMT
• Title: Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?
• Authors: Mohamed El Louadi, Emna Ben Romdhane,
• Abstract summary: This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence.<n>Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence. Drawing on Irving J. Good and Nick Bostrom's theoretical work, plus recent publications (AI 2027; If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), it explores AGI and superintelligence. Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien. Human extinction may result not from malice, but from uncontrollable, indifferent cognitive superiority.

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