> Their fear is that people will start trusting these artificial systems too much and delegating too many important decisions to systems that have no understand

> Their fear is that people will start trusting these artificial systems too much and delegating too many important decisions to systems that have no understanding of what it means to be human In the interview, Hofstadter says what he's afraid of in explicit terms: > It's not clear whether that will mean the end of humanity in the sense of the systems we've created destroying us. It's not clear if that's the case, but it's certainly conceivable. If not, it also just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches. It's not about whether we'll become dependent on AI. It's that AI will become independent of us. Completely different problem. Not saying I agree with that viewpoint per se, but I don't think you're accurately representing what his fears are.