AI certainly raises all sorts of ethical and practical issue beyon the obvious "Will we ever achieve it?", but predicting when is even harder than predicting what. Further, evolution has many pathways, not all of which involve driving competitors to extinction. Of course, some of the alternative pathways may also be horrifying.
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