We are building more and more powerful systems that we understand less well as time goes on. The trend will probably be towards these models taking on increasingly open-ended tasks on behalf of humans, acting as our agents in the world. For any task you might want done, you would rather ask an AI system than ask a human because they are cheaper,. They run faster, and they might be smarter overall. In that endgame, humans that don't rely on AI are uncompetitive. If we have that kind of reliance, we quickly end up in the position of children today.
A reading of "Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/five-ways-ai-might-destroy-the-world-everyone-on-earth-could-fall-over-dead-in-the-same-second
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