The AI doom scenario you've never heard of may be the hardest to stop

TL;DR

AI's rapid advancement in cognitive and physical tasks threatens to make humans passive 'approvers' through a process called 'gradual disempowerment.'
Gradual disempowerment involves AI displacing human labor, replacing human decision-making, eroding creativity, and degrading human cognition.
This scenario is driven by economic and political pressures for organizations to adopt AI, leading to a potential loss of human agency and democratic governance.
Experts warn that gradual disempowerment is a civilization-scale problem requiring a whole-of-society approach to solve.
Solutions involve keeping humans in the loop, designing AI to be complementary rather than substitutive, and implementing strategic 'friction' in AI processes.
The threat of gradual disempowerment is less vivid than other AI doomsday scenarios but is seen by some as a more logical and potentially harder-to-stop outcome.

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