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Is the most likely doom scenario of an AI apocalypse another version of the very hungry caterpillar story, where instead of having an insatiable amount of hunger for food, it's knowledge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by folaht@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So that at the end of the doom scenario, the whole world turns into a giant computer just so the AI can solve a difficult puzzle?

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[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Thor Ragnarok feels like a weirdly good analogy for the AI transition.

Hela = AI, Asgard = modern society, Thor = Millennials/Gen Z, Odin = tech/business, Loki = humanity's impulses, and Surtur = whatever comes after the singularity.

Hela suddenly destroys what Thor thought was foundational, exposes the ugly foundations of the old Asgard, and eventually becomes so intertwined with it that Thor has to let something even bigger destroy the old system to move forward.

But Ragnarok isn't p(doom): Asgard falls, not its people. They survive an awkward transition and eventually build New Asgard within a completely different world.

Basically the age-old story of an old order becoming unsustainable, collapsing, and its people adapting into whatever comes next.