There is a lot of talk and fear about A.I and the threat it imposes on our species. But how else are we to achieve singularity and advance our civilisation from Type 0 and beyond?
If the human race created a race of machines we ended up becoming subservient to, but would advance our civilisation exponentially from a Type 0, to 1,2,3 or 4 would you be okay with that?
Currently we are subservient to governments. Which don't exactly have a clean record when it comes to looking after it's citizens. Would A.I really be a bad next step in our evolution?
The human race could continue to plod along for the next few thousand years, further destroying our planet, depleting its resources and killing each over petty wars. No guarantee that wars, climate or an asteroid impact wont wipe us out anyway putting an end to all the knowledge we have accumulated and our species
Perhaps we could fully merge with A.I machines and in essence become immortal. The human body is incredibly fragile, inefficient, unreliable and requires a lot of maintenance. Imagine having your consciousness uploaded into a network with billions of others, and that from then on there is near zero maintenance to keep the population alive indefinitely. If we could create our own universe inside the network then we could 'travel' anywhere in our own created universe we wish to. Some believe our universe is a virtual reality of a master race, and their universe is another construct from those before them. Who knows how many levels it goes. We can create resolution and colours that is no match for our human eye. We can create audio with range and definition that is no match for human ears. We can create computers with processing power much faster and able to hold onto memory perfectly that is no match for our brain. Perhaps our destiny is in making our own virtual reality which is true to being so virtual it becomes indistinguishable or even more advanced than 'actual' reality without worrying about all the frailties of being biological
If that is the case, I welcome our future A.I overlords. I'm hopeful they will do a better job in looking after the planet and people then we are