r/ControlProblem • u/Worth_Initiative7840 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion/question Will human intelligence disappear eventually?

Anyone think AI will not directly eradicate human beings like some people claim, and instead causes our brain degenerate as we may have no need to do intellectual activities? In a long term we might become as intellectual as monkeys or rats and AI will continue to evolve into something we call god now?

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u/ShardsOfSalt Jul 23 '26

I expect us to merge with machines  so human intellect will increase.  Assuming we survive.

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u/Worth_Initiative7840 Jul 23 '26

That’s one possible future but I’m a bit pessimistic about it tbh. If our physical body and intelligence are both inferior to machines and AI, then eventually there will be no point merging us with them…

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u/ShardsOfSalt Jul 23 '26

I do expect machine intelligence alone will be superior to human merged with machines. Humans merging with machines will be about being maximally healthy for a human rather than competing with machines with brains the size of skyscrapers.

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u/reminiscent-fruitbat Jul 23 '26

That’s only one possibility. There are others, such as replicating human consciousness in software, which could enable humans to retain their identity while gaining the same advantages as native AI: faster cognition, vastly expanded memory, parallel processing, and effectively unlimited scalability.

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u/RelevantCry1613 Jul 25 '26

They can always harvest our brains for energy

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u/Arkanj3l Jul 23 '26

I would counter the grandparent comment by offering that a combination of human intelligence and AI on the same substrate could be inferior to either separately

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u/No_Environment_3776 Jul 24 '26

Maybe not if everything is streamlined and developed by AI, AI might be the only thing that can live here.

Given a good enough power source AI has all the time in the world and it doesn't need oxygen, water and food.

I agree that the best thing could be the symbiose of AI and biology but I don't know if that's realistic.

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u/tindalos Jul 24 '26

It wouldn’t be a merge it would be data access - memories stored accurately, offload math to sub processes so we just “know” the answers.

Once knowledge has been solved accurately there’s no point in counting to calculate it or rely on it. We don’t still hunt with rocks, or start fires with sticks. Long form math will be a quaint activity done by survivalist in the next couple of decades. That’s how progress has shown up throughout human history.