How Could AI Eliminate Humanity? A Failure-Mode Analysis of Civilizational Risk

arXiv cs.AIOctober 8, 2026en

arXiv:2610.08878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article develops a failure-mode framework for analyzing how advanced artificial intelligence could contribute to human extinction, irreversible civilizational collapse, or permanent human disempowerment. The central thesis is that catastrophic AI risk does not require consciousness, hostility, or an explicit intention to harm humanity. Instead, risk may arise through several distinct but interacting pathways, including autonomous misalignment, harmful human use, organizational failure, and competitive deployment. The severity of these pathways depends on factors such as capability, autonomy, external access, persistence, institutional safe

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