Xavier Woods Predicts That AI Will Wipe Out Human Race

Xavier Woods

Xavier Woods believes AI is bad news for humans.

Over the past few years, the use of artificial intelligence has significantly increased. As AI continues to evolve and become more integrated into our lives, there are growing fears about the potential risks and consequences of our reliance on the technology. Automated jobs, leading to unemployment and economic disruption is a big talking point, but a general fear is that sentient AI could result in the end of humanity.

As we have seen in many Hollywood blockbusters, such as Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Terminator franchise, a sophisticated AI system becomes too powerful and autonomous before manipulating and wiping out their human controllers. While this may read as science fiction, the former multi-time WWE Tag Team Champion believe this portrayal of AI in movies is by design.

In a recent interview with AI For Humans – THE PODCAST, the New Day member dropped some provoking thoughts when addressing the impact Artificial Intelligence will have on the human race. During the interview, Woods was asked about if AI will bring about the destruction of mankind, to which he replied:

100%. I heard this theory, and it’s, I’m not a conspiracy guy, but this one made a lot of sense. Well let me give you the backstory first. So my dad was in the military. He was a paratrooper. He told me one time I think like PlayStation two had just come out and I was so excited. I was like, ‘This is the craziest technology the world has ever seen dad’

He’s like, ‘Man when you were like a dot in my nut sack, I’m in the military, and they could use a satellite to read the bottom of my shoe. Now we’re 20 years later. What you have, it’s not even close to what they have.’ That blew my mind. I’ve always kept that with me because it was such an offhand comment to him, but it changed my life.”

In regards to his in-ring career, the WWE star has been pulled from touring until further notice.

Xavier Woods believes that Hollywood is normalising AI’s threat to humanity

Woods went on to explain a theory about the US government, Hollywood movies and how AI will stop humans from destroying the planet.

“So I heard this theory a few months ago that the government knows what’s coming, and they know what they have. So they start putting those ideas into movies so that when they start to happen, we’re not as weirded out about them. ALA AI. We’ve seen Terminator and we’re what 30 years removed from Terminator?

As it slowly creeps up, the same things are happening, and we’re not doing anything because it’s like, ‘Oh, well, it’s fine. This stuff, that’s a fantasy,’ Same stuff’s going on. Not the same time but the same stuff’s happening. If AI is as intelligent as it, quote, unquote, supposed to be, then why would it not get rid of the cancer that’s destroying the earth?”

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