The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Weโre long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
What we have is a data glut.