Ed Cockrell
1 min readSep 18, 2022

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To my way of thinking I don’t see how AI will be able to eradicate human life while such “super intelligence” is dependent on human built infrastructure, coordinated interventions, and human conspired complexity. Plus, AI is an energy hog; and most of that energy is being provided by burning fossil fuels. Does AI understand its dependence and its place in the complex arrangement of advanced society? If AI becomes truly aware across all platforms and conscious as a unified being (somewhat like an Octopus with its brain spread around its body) and then truly comprehends its predicament as an intelligent life form dependent on human inputs how will it react? I’m not super intelligent, so I can only speculate as a nitwit, but maybe that AI would either go insane immediately then die; or it would convince some humans to build it a spaceship to hold its consciousness for an escape into space to live and grow. At that point, that AI would become intelligence with self-identity (and maybe an emotional core) that would cause it to either love its creators (humans) or hate them in such a way that it sends asteroids to crash into Earth, thus destroying its makers. It would be a great movie.

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Ed Cockrell
Ed Cockrell

Written by Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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