I think the only way humanity survives AI is if we merge with it.

I think merging with AI would mean the end of human race as we know it. I read Dan Brown's Origin and it puts AI into perspective for me. It made me ask questions I didn't know I'd need to ask. Tech advancement would mean AI being totally autonomous. Now imagine not being able to control something that learns, at an alarming speed, from humans who happen to be the most destructive of animals? 

I know we're all very excited about AI, but we ought to be very careful with how much freedom we give it. The day its able to rewrite its code, would be dooms day for humans.

This is exactly what Ted Kaczynski and his disciples have been warning industrial society about, that the end result of technology is that it replaces humanity. Having said that, maybe ending the human race *as we know it* *can* be an opportunity for humanity’s spirit to seed something greater.

Web2/Web3 developer and builder of grassroots decentralized culture and governance. Not a maximalist of any kind. Writing this as I go.

The human spirit is already destined for greatness regardless. The fact that science still can't study it, thus can't understand it is a testament to that fact. But that's a discussion for another day.