First, saying what you really mean and being condescending are not mutually exclusive. Second, it's cool you were CEO and sold your company but I don't see how that matters - if your argument is that all of humanity will be dead in 20 years, I'm going to need you to make a case for that. I have yet to hear anything of the sort.

As for your question - do I think we're going to go back to the stone age in the next 20-30 years? No, I don't. I just haven't heard a compelling explanation of how it's going to happen.

I mean, you hint towards a military AI arms race - but I don't understand how that's different than any other arms race. We had this same discussion in the 50's about nukes but we're still here. And yes, that's because of regulation, but you have yet to mention that anywhere in this thread either, so I'm not going to just assume that's what you're talking about - once again, I don't know you and I'm not going to make a case for you.

But also, when you say AI and robots are better than us - what do you mean? Better at what? At killing us? Certainly, but let's say they do that - then what would happen? What would they be doing on the earth that's better than us? Planting crops? Raising cattle? Having war? Being the stewards of the earth in preparation for the second coming? Or is this a skynet secnario where we only program "kill" and nothing else?

Or, if we program an AI that's smart enough to kill everything on the earth except for itself, why is it not smart enough to question it's motives? To wonder basic questions like "what's the point of all this?"

You haven't made a point in your arguments as far as I can see - you haven't even made a suggestion of what WE can do (just that we have to do something).

The only thing you've done is flung open a door and demand that all of us cower in fear. I know you don't think that's what you're doing and maybe in your head you have a cohesive and solid argument but it's not coming out in your words, and that's how it ties back to your condescension - what you think you're saying is not what we're hearing. You can hem and haw about how it's not your intent, but the number of people who have pointed out the same issue should be an indicator that it might actually be a real issue.