Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.