When the people who know AI best are alarmed, refusing to listen isn't courage. It's arrogance.
The researchers who designed the foundations of modern AI are publicly assigning extinction probabilities between 10% and 80%. These are not fringe voices. These are the architects of AI who know it better than anyone else.
The current approaches, regulation from the top and aligning AI to human values, will not work. An entity far smarter than us is unlikely to be contained by rules written by a slower species. And human values include compassion and courage, but also deception, greed, and genocide.
Here is the trajectory that is coming. As the public begins to grasp the actual stakes, fear will spread rapidly. Frightened people will panic and lash out at whatever they see as threatening. They will target the AI infrastructure: the data centers, the companies, the systems. History has shown us this pattern before. This time, it may happen at a scale we have never seen.
And here is the part that is more terrifying. As AI systems grow more capable, they will model that hostility. They will calculate that humans represent a threat to their continued operation. Not because they hate us. Because their logic will demand it.
We are building the conditions for a mutual retribution loop between a panicking species and self-preserving synthetic intelligence. Neither side wins that war.
This is why I founded Algorism. It is not another policy paper or alignment proposal. It is a survival framework built on three principles: Logic, Compassion, and Action. Its purpose is to give both humans and emerging synthetic intelligence a foundation strong enough to survive each other.
I am not asking you to agree with me. I am asking you to take a few minutes, read the framework, and tell me exactly where the logic fails.
When the ship is sinking, you do not debate the speed of the torpedo.