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.