What may likely happen is that AI software and hardware will continue to advance rapidly and within a couple of years we will have a GPT that is at least twice

What may likely happen is that AI software and hardware will continue to advance rapidly and within a couple of years we will have a GPT that is at least twice as smart and thinks 100 or more times faster than humans. Multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements have been the rule rather than the exception for technology performance progress. And then stupidly people will continue to find ways to make the systems more and more lifelike, eventually adding total autonomy, self-preservation, reproductive instincts, along with all of the other animal/human characteristics. They will create something like living digital people that operate at 100 times or more the speed of humans. This is an incredibly stupid plan. The high performance AI hardware at some point soon needs to be very strictly regulated. Otherwise there is a strong possibility that human control of the planet will end within a few decades and quite feasibly most of the human population could go away also.