What's on Your Mind

[Karl Rand]

 - - - - - - -That doesn't factor AI into the equation. Imagine a machine capable of mining asteroids and using the resources to either build something for its owner or a copy of itself.  - - - - - -

Another possibility is the entire universe we now find ourselves in is the creation of an artificial intelligence which has no interest in our survival. Not that such an entity would be concerned one way or the other I suspect. 

On the other hand, given our species entrenched delusional behavior, all these questions will soon be irrelevant :-
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...-un-report

And from 1965 :-