Nuclear annihilation has probably been all-but-guaranteed since we invented the steam engine and began the flywheel of the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless,

Nuclear annihilation has probably been all-but-guaranteed since we invented the steam engine and began the flywheel of the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless, we vastly improved human productivity and capability and have thus far avoided our doom. AI will be the same way. We will vastly improve our productivity and capabilities. Once insurmountable problems, like planned economies, will actually be tractable (to what end? Nobody knows). Eventually (decades? Centuries?) we will make something that can kill us all, and it’s all but guaranteed that some day it will do so, assuming nothing else kills us before then. If I had the power to go back in time would I stop the Industrial Revolution from happening? Personally no