RE: Employing Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Visualization and the Betterment of Humanity Before it Turns on Us and Destroys Us

Great points. I don't think AI will lead to our demise (yet), but it will lead to our mutation into a new species (which technically is our demise but nevermind semantics :) The more I interact with AIs, the more I see them as the species that will replace us eventually. At least humanity will not be able to survive without it. It won't be a grand plot by a mad evil genius that do us in, it will be good old natural selection thanks to the accumulation of mutations in the AI and in the last of us. People recoil at the idea of humanity transforming into something else, as if we're just a static unit of the evolutionary process. Like all other species, humanity is just a transitory state. No species has remained unaltered in the history of life. I actually consider myself a type of amphibian who has mutated to survive the info-oceans of the electronic net. My brain simply requires a good dose of photons daily the way early amphibians required a good dose of oxygen by the seashore. There are inflection points in the history of a species, transition areas driven by bio-genetic mutations like lungs, backbones, arms & legs, stereoscopic vision, brain size, etc. These developments were not approved by committee, politicians, government bureaucracies, activists, or the six o'clock news. The old wisdom still stands. When it's time to mutate, it's gonna mutate whether we're for or against mutations.

Thank you for you insightful comment!