# Will Humanity Be Rendered Obsolete by AI?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22814 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22814/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 35 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Oct 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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- [Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.08872/) (2025)
- [Bias Amplification: Large Language Models as Increasingly Biased Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.15234/) (2024)
- [Unveiling Confirmation Bias in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.12301/) (2025)
- [CulTrace: Tracing Internal Cultural Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.08879/) (2025)
- [Teasing Apart Architecture and Initial Weights as Sources of Inductive Bias in Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.20237/) (2025)
- [A dynamical measure of algorithmically infused visibility](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.04735/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This article analyzes the existential risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity, tracing the trajectory from current AI to ultraintelligence. Drawing on Irving J. Good and Nick Bostrom's theoretical work, plus recent publications (AI 2027; If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies), it explores AGI and superintelligence. Considering machines' exponentially growing cognitive power and hypothetical IQs, it addresses the ethical and existential implications of an intelligence vastly exceeding humanity's, fundamentally alien. Human extinction may result not from malice, but from uncontrollable, indifferent cognitive superiority.