How Would AI Actually Kill Us? From Bioweapons to Gradual Handover of Control
RobbWiller · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to the common "but HOW would AI kill everyone?" skepticism, @GroundhogStrat lays out two classes of answers: near-term catastrophic mechanisms (bioweapons including mirror-life bacteria, nuclear launch, cyberattacks bricking farming equipment, hunter drones) and the longer-term path where society progressively hands control to increasingly capable and inscrutable AIs — drivers, doctors, factories, scientific discovery — until humans no longer understand how their own society works. "We will turn ourselves into pets." A notable exchange in the ongoing AI-existential-risk debate.
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