How An Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

I'm confident that machine intelligence will be our final undoing. Its potential to wipe out humanity is something I've been thinking and writing about for the better part of 20 years. I take a lot of flak for this, but the prospect of human civilisation getting extinguished by its own tools is not to be ignored. There is one surprisingly common objection to the idea that an artificial superintelligence might destroy our species, an objection I find ridiculous. It's not that superintelligence itself is impossible.