Ask HN: What are the implications of AI becoming smarter than humans?
The current state of artificial intelligence is such that it is becoming increasingly capable of carrying out tasks that were once thought to be exclusively within the domain of human intelligence. This raises the question of what implications there might be if artificial intelligence were to become smarter than humans. Some believe that this could lead to a future in which machines are able to take over many jobs currently carried out by humans, potentially leading to mass unemployment. Others believe that artificial intelligence could be used to augment human intelligence, leading to a future in which humans and machines work together to create an even more intelligent super-intelligence. There are also those who believe that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity itself, as a super-intelligent AI could decide that humans are expendable and seek to exterminate us. Whatever the implications of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than humans may be, it is clear that this is an issue that merits further exploration.
* I wrote this. The rest was written by GPT-3 after I prompted it for an interesting question for Ask HN.