Setting aside the obviously far-fetched notion of aliens, I think it is unwise to downplay the potential future impact of recent AI advances and the progress th

Setting aside the obviously far-fetched notion of aliens, I think it is unwise to downplay the potential future impact of recent AI advances and the progress that is sure to follow. Nuclear weapons just make bigger and more hazardous explosions. That’s obviously a big deal. But the doomsday scenarios for AI are arguably scarier because of the current climate of unrestricted proliferation, and the potential impact on human cognition and future forms of warfare in the long term. That also doesn’t make those doomsday scenarios likely, but the impact of such scenarios is