Kevin Kelly

Yeah, I mean, the idea of existential threat is completely overrated.

It's a fantasy.

I'll tell you what's overrated.

Intelligence itself is overrated.

It's overrated by guys who like to think, who think that thinking is the most important thing in the universe.

To get things done is not necessarily the most important.

But take Einstein and a tiger and put them in a cage.

Who wins?

It's not the smartest guy.

Why is that?

Because it takes other things besides intelligence to get things done in the world.

It's not the company with the smartest people that will dominate.

It's not the smartest person in the room that necessarily knows what to do.

Intelligence is necessary but not sufficient to get things done in the world.

And the people who imagine the smart genius AI thing are guilty of thinkism in the sense that they think that thinking trumps everything else, and it doesn't.

There are so many other things that you need to accomplish something to have effect on actually making things happen, including empathy, including perseverance, all kinds of things.

And so a lot of the fears of the existential threat of the AI is taking over and killing us all are based on the idea that if you have AI genius level thing that it will overwhelm anything else in the world.

But what we know is that the will to survive

We'll always overwhelm the will to predate.

I mean, this is why only one out of 10 predations work, because the will to survive is much more powerful than the will to kill.