# AI and the "end of humanity". Explain please?

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**Created:** [September 12, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-and-the-end-of-humanity-explain-please/1033021 "2026-09-12T19:29:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-and-the-end-of-humanity-explain-please/1033021/139 "2026-09-20T12:15:04Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Reminds me of the woman many years ago who I challenged on her medical knowledge of something or another. Her response was “Well, my dad is a doctor, so. . .” My response was to finish her sentence with “. . .that makes you the daughter of a doctor.”

Well that field is really all about who you know. 😃

In this thread [So what will our AI civilization of the future look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-will-our-ai-civilization-of-the-future-look-like/1032973) @Spice_Weasel mentioned the following related to people’s taste in books and other forms of art:

> [@So what will our AI civilization of the future look like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-will-our-ai-civilization-of-the-future-look-like/1032973/64):
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> The thing is I’m not terribly confident most people have taste for AI to corrupt. I consistently see books with an average 4.5 star rating that I thought were absolute trash. I don’t think most people know shit from good.

I’m thinking this is true for most topics. People are terrible at most things, even if they are masters of something. A very few people can be masters of any field.

We already live in a society where access to information gives people a false sense of expertise regarding pretty much everything. So what happens to society when AI can actually do everything for us?

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