While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance call for rapid AI growth and push back on the need for industry regulation, billionaire investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban has been poring over social media, asking questions about the best and worst-case scenarios for AI.
"What is more concerning to you, AI being destructive to Humans, or Humans responding to AI being destructive to Humans?" Cuban recently asked in a poll on X. With 11,850 votes, the results were fairly close:
- AI: 44.8%
- Humans: 55.2%
The poll found that more people think humans responding to AI being destructive is more concerning, with 55.2% of the vote. Some of the best responses for the poll are found below:
- @KingOfAllSpuds: “You can unplug ai. You can’t unplug humans.”
- @ElectionWoes: “AI is trained by Humans… Worse yet its trained by Humans who strive for power, money, influence, and control… any destruction caused by AI would quintessentially [be] human.”
- @burner8787: “Humans, and it’s not even close.”
- @keith31345919: “You forgot a 3rd correct option… Humans being destructive to Humans.”
The top quote finds one of the ultimate arguments for AI being able to be stopped by unplugging it, something that can’t be done for humans.
The second quote strengthens the argument for why most people picked Humans in the poll, as it shows the negativity AI can have when used incorrectly or by the wrong people.
AI vs. Climate Change
Cuban’s latest poll follows the billionaire asking AI chatbot Grok, the AI assistant owned by SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX), whether AI or climate change is "more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years.”
The chatbot had no problem coming up with an answer and the percentage.
“AI is more likely than climate change. AI extinction probability next 25 years: ~3%,” Grok replied.
The AI chatbot told Cuban there is a 3% chance that AI will lead to human extinction over the next 25 years.
Grok put the timeline of this in the mid-2030s to 2040s, with the rise of “misaligned superintelligence.”
For climate change, Grok assigned a 0.001% chance of human extinction for the next 25 years.
“No plausible path to extinction that soon.”
Grok said that, when it comes to climate change, humans are more likely to adapt “via technology and migration.”
Cuban’s question showed that the odds of human extinction are still incredibly low, but AI would be much more likely to cause it than climate change.
Cuban has spoken positively and negatively about AI in recent months. His feedback may help consumers and investors alike to understand that there is both good and bad as the technology advances.
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