Richard van Oort at Scroll.in:
Each day brings a reminder of another threat to our peace and security. War, political instability and climate change send migrants and refugees across national borders. Cybercriminals hack networks of public and private institutions. Terrorists use trucks and planes as weapons.
And hanging grimly above us all, like the sword of Damocles, lurks the threat of total nuclear annihilation.
At the root of these threats is a problem that is as old as humanity itself.
In the domain of survival and reproduction, human intelligence stands out for one specific reason. We are the only species on earth for whom intelligence is also an ethical liability. As the anthropological critic Eric Gans has argued, we are the only species for whom the problem of our violence is also our greatest existential threat.
Insights from Western literature and myth point to the ethical problem at the core of human intelligence.
More here.