Ask HN: On the Threats of AI

I'm fascinated and excited about the latest advancements in AI. As a software engineer, used to see computers do exactly what we program them to do, when I see AI able to reply in a human like way, with these emergent behavior from a statistical model it feels like magic. But although excited, I can see many ways how AI can be a threat to humanity. And I'm not only referring to SuperAGI wiping out humanity with determination as it's primary goal, or even indifference as a side effect while pursuing a completely unrelated goal. Or even more immediately used by bad actors to spread misinformation, deep fakes that could have dramatic political outcomes, or for really elaborate scams. Or even a threat for many different roles in the job market.

All of those things are a possibility and many people has discussed them.

What I have not seen discussed is, we see how seemingly good AI can be to diagnose medical patients, as a lawyer, as a programmer or software engineer, and so on. This is now, imagine in 10 years.

What happens when AI is so good at all those things that new generations of humans don't have an incentive to learn and study and become experts in any of those fields because what's the point if AI is so good!

As the old generation of experts in different fields retires, there will be no more human experts on those fields anymore, how will research and advancement continue? We should have delegated all knowledge to AI and humans would be ignorant of most advanced things, isn't that a terrifying though? I think that would lead to the collapse of our civilization.

What do you think?