Earth’s end is a highly favorite choice of movie makers and writers all over the world. They have come up with different scenarios of how Earth will end in coming years. Aliens, time travel, AI all possibilities have been touched.
However, we present to you 7 highly possible ways Earth could meet its end in near future.
1 Takeover by Artificial Intelligence
Humans are becoming highly dependent on the machines and are developing self-aware machines to automate many things. All of you must have seen Terminator movies, where artificial intelligence (AI) becomes self-aware and starts terminating humans. Humans are currently on path shown in movies. We have self-driving cars, robot waiters and even AI helpers like Alex, Cortana, and Siri.
According to the Center for the Study of Existential Risk, machines will be capable of achieving about 90% of human-level intelligence by 2075. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said, “It would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded. We cannot quite know what will happen if a machine exceeds our own intelligence, so we can’t know if we’ll be infinitely helped by it, or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it.”
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2 Aliens invading Earth
1996 movie Independence Day showed Aliens invading Earth and humans uniting to defeat them. However, in real life, Alien life has not been confirmed yet, but there is a possibility of humans meeting some alien life form in near future. The scary thought is that we do not know what will be the intentions of those aliens.
It has been suggested however by Department of Defense, that a World of War style invasion may happen and even if aliens do not posses any threat, their foreign pathogens can be fatal for us humans.
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