Instead of some kind of AI takeover I’ve thought for a long time that the most likely outcome is fusion, what I have called a “cybernetic lichen.” A lichen is

Instead of some kind of AI takeover I’ve thought for a long time that the most likely outcome is fusion, what I have called a “cybernetic lichen.” A lichen is a fungus and a bacterium in symbiosis to the point that it behaves like a single organism. This would be similar: human brains and culture interwoven with AI to the point that it would be hard to figure out where one ends and another begins. This doesn’t require neuralink or anything like that. It just requires a lot of human machine interaction and AI assisted work loads. This is the lowest friction path and is also likely because human brains, conventional computers, and AI all excel at different things. This is by design. Humans have of course tried to engineer machines to do precisely the things we are either no good at or find horribly dull.