# Are AI Machines Making Humans Obsolete?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11719 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.11719/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Aug 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.0473/) (2014)
- [Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.05756/) (2021)
- [Remote patient monitoring using artificial intelligence: Current state, applications, and challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.10009/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This chapter starts with a sketch of how we got to "generative AI" (GenAI) and a brief summary of the various impacts it had so far. It then discusses some of the opportunities of GenAI, followed by the challenges and dangers, including dystopian outcomes resulting from using uncontrolled machine learning and our failures to understand the results. It concludes with some suggestions for how to control GenAI and address its dangers.