Artificial IntelligenceJul 24, 2026
The Quiet Existential Risk of Artificial Intelligence, Not Human Extinction, but Human Irrelevance
by Michael C.
History suggests that civilizations rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. More often they erode slowly as the institutions, incentives, and beliefs that once sustained them begin to disappear. What if the greatest existential risk posed by artificial intelligence is not that it destroys humanity, but that humanity gradually abandons the very qualities that allowed civilization to flourish?
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