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

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> Or consciousness is not binary.

It’s probably binary in the sense that it either exists or it doesn’t.

But it’s entirely possible that an AI (or alien) might be much _more_ conscious that we are. We aren’t aware of most of out own mind, after all.

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