Could AI trigger a population collapse? Professor warns of ‘tech-stinction’

Electricity once sparked fears of widespread electrocution. Nuclear power brought warnings of total annihilation. Commentators claimed that the internet would usher in an era of global surveillance, while critics raised alarms about cloning and “playing God” as biotechnology advanced. Each time, people predicted the end of the world, but it never arrived.

Now, artificial intelligence is the latest focus of existential panic, not because it might overpower us, but because some fear it could erase us by making people choose not to have children.

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