Are we facing tech-stinction?

An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth — with a current estimated population of about 8 billion — will have just 100 million people left by the year 2300.

“It’s going to be devastating for society and world society,” Subhash Kak, who teaches computer science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, told the Sun . “I think people really don’t have a clue.”

However, the “ Age of Artificial Intelligence ” author doesn’t think this dystopian future will come about via nuclear war or other “Terminator”-evoking scenarios, but rather through replacing our jobs. 3

“Computers or robots will never be conscious, but they will be doing literally all that we do because m

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