Humans may have been looking at the wrong end of the spectrum. They should not bother about melting ice caps, population explosions, or even the rise in natural calamities; the real apocalypse is far more elegant, faster, and conveniently Wi-Fi enabled. It’s the quiet, humming, code-crunching kind of apocalypse that won’t knock on your doors; it’ll simply change your survival password and log you out of existence.

Yes, humans may have already launched the endgame of humanity. Not surprisingly, it has less to do with mushroom clouds or a shrinking ozone layer and more to do with machine learning models. Give it a decade, maybe less, if the AI chase heats up.

The Great Dumbing Down of Machines

Let’s start with a confession. We did this to ourselves with AI—the overhyped and overfunded mar

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