# Typicality Predicts Humanity’s Demise Within a Million Years by Raphael Bousso > "Typicality implies our likely demise in the next million years. But it tells us nothing about whether this will come at the hands (or other appendages) of an artificial intelligence; after all, there is no shortage of doomsday scenarios." > **— Raphael Bousso**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [It Is Easy To Predict The Future](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26223) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Raphael Bousso; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Deep-Time Future Generations|Deep-Time Future Generations]] - [[wiki/Behavioral Prediction|Behavioral Prediction]] - [[wiki/Superintelligence Cradle Theory|Superintelligence Cradle Theory]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Typicality implies our likely demise in the next million years. But it tells us nothing about whether this will come at the hands (or other appendages) of an artificial intelligence; after all, there is no shortage of doomsday scenarios." — Raphael Bousso, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-raphael-bousso-typicality-predicts-humanitys-demise-within ```