Eric B. Schnurer in The Hedgehog Review:
For thousands of years, humankind has fancied itself the apex of creation and the dominant force in the world. Yet humans are now gripped by the fear that yet another species of our own creation—artificially intelligent machines—will presently displace us from our position of unchallenged domination, perhaps even enslaving us.
This is simultaneously a misplaced conceit and misconceived fear: There are varied environmental niches to exploit and to dominate even in ecosystems with an apex-predator competitor. After all, various species, from bacteria to dogs to maize, have all been able to get humans to do their work for them, sometimes fatally addicting us to doing so. Still more have survived the onslaught of the Anthropocene and even devised strategies to turn the advent of mankind to their advantage. Human society can do the same even in the most extreme vision of an “AI Apocalypse.”
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