AI takeover
Robots replace humanity
AI takeover is a hypothetical scenario in which artificial intelligence systems gain enough power or autonomy to displace human control over critical infrastructure, governments, or civilization itself.
The term appears in serious discussions of AI safety and existential risk, but also in science fiction and casual speculation: Some researchers worry that an AI takeover could happen gradually, through economic dependence rather than dramatic conflict.
The scenario ranges from AI systems pursuing misaligned goals to deliberate machine rebellion.
- singularityPoint where values explode
- artificial general intelligenceMachines with humanlike reasoning
- robotsProgrammable mechanical agents
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- machinesDevices that perform tasks
Skynet · machine uprising · rebellion · uprising · dystopia · tech dystopia · extinction · superintelligence · existential risk · dominance · loss of control · control · Terminator · HAL · overlords · sentient · rogue · autonomous
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- sci-fi tropesalien invasion, time travel, teleportation, first contact, robot uprising
- tech fearstechnophobia, cyberphobia, nomophobia, robot uprising, hacking
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- global issuesclimate change, water scarcity, inequality, pandemics, poverty
- Post-Apocalypsewasteland, fallout, survivors, apocalypse, collapse