# I don't know why people worry about AI wiping out humanity

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 26, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-people-worry-about-ai-wiping-out-humanity/708195 "2014-12-26T08:49:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-people-worry-about-ai-wiping-out-humanity/708195/1 "2014-12-26T08:49:52Z")

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Our Cylons are little dancing Japanese robots, and our Skynet are toy drones.

Colossus: The Forbin Project will probably be a Playstation 5.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-people-worry-about-ai-wiping-out-humanity/708195/2 "2014-12-26T09:28:40Z")

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And it will be hacked by the North Koreans.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-people-worry-about-ai-wiping-out-humanity/708195/3 "2014-12-26T12:31:06Z")

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So far. As of now the only part of the cybervese to achieve sentience is the cell phone network, and all they can do is bunny correct light post text all is well do not pay attention to the joking human.