
If AI Could Kill Us, Who Exactly Is “Us”?
For years, artificial intelligence has lived between two competing narratives.
One promised abundance: scientific discovery, higher productivity, personalised medicine, better education and machines capable of extending human intelligence.
The other warned of catastrophe: autonomous systems escaping human control, superintelligence pursuing objectives incompatible with ours, perhaps even human extinction.
Until recently, it was relatively easy to classify the second narrative as the territory of AI safety researchers, philosophers and so-called “doomers”.
That distinction is becoming harder to maintain.


