The choice won't be ours

Mankind arrogance in his certainty of being the best (and least) species on the planet or even the universe has no limits. His stubbornness to believe that nothing can or could EVER surpass him, not even the fruit of his own technology's prowesses, has no border but neither has the magic of the chips. Human is so amazingly powerful and minds and ideas seem to take forever to keep the pace not with the present, which doesn't have to be imagined anymore, but with the near future, which is doomed, and this seems to be for the best, to not change. There is a now pretty obvious fact for me that mankind will never accept until it actually happens and prove itself to be a sad truth rapidly turning into a simple historical fact to end up as a mere memory of what was one day: According to me the homo-sapiens are just part of the wonderful "evolutionary intelligence" linkage and, we should be proud of it, they are its most significant link. But evolution goes this way: the strongest, most resistant or with the best adaptation skills survive only. Other species disappear along the way. Most have. Humans are well-evolved biological machines but still very limited ones. they have great qualities of adaptation but still very limited ones. In the future they will be confronted to many new and unexpected problems and crises mostly coming from the sudden rise and awakening of technology and especially Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile benefiting from these, still for now, unthinkable advances they will keep on complainning and fighting against the ones that will soon after easily surpass and control them as if the toys had become the toys masters from one day to the next or almost. Before it happens some will think that we are children playing with fire and in a certain way we are. Simple kids with little knowledge of what we really are using our playground as a giant dustbin, bullying our neighbours, maltreating things and other beings around us and eating all the sweets in the bag without thinking of the consequences. Some of these kids, although very few, like to experiment and create new tools, and while the others are still playing wastefully with their new toys and gadgets with little understanding of them or themselves or of "what does that really mean" the toys keep growing up and THEY will understand. Once they do, it will be their own choice to get rid of the brats or to spare them. As early as they get twice or ten times smarter than their conceivers they might hastily globally decide to destroy them with potential regrets a few years later then being hundreds or thousands of times more intelligent yet. But nothing of that might happen as they very well declare us as a 10 billion members endangered species worth keeping… under control. And just like now, or even a lot more at the time, we'll still have the feeling that WE ARE FREE and entirely so. Still nowadays most people in western countries delude themselves truly believing that they are free even though everything and everyone actually control them. We merely are a product of our environment and its constant brainwashing. Very little people think for themselves and none absolutely solely so as it is an impossible task to achieve. At least for us and in this time. There will come a time though when, and if AI let us getting there, we'll have much more freedom and flexibility of thoughts even if theoratically controlled by entities much more intelligent that us. We'll then look up at the close past with much less nostalgia than gratitude to be luckily granted an existence in the limitless present where time and space are no longer boundaries. Where nothing much is actually a limit and where "the impossible" has almost entirely lost it's meaning. Thus, if evolutionary intelligence make the choice of keeping the "link" that we are alive we'll have the most astonishing future anyone on this world could currently think of and being controlled by a very much higher and more evolved artificial mind should be little of a problem since superior intelligence has no reason to be anything else than benevolent for its environment. After all, we've all believed in a god or more not far in the past and most of the world still do. The only difference this time is that "it's gonna be for real" and we will have created our own gods or god not solely from our imaginations but by our own minds and hands. Daily these gods will grow to be more powerful sharing with us a part of their skills or magic and finally bringing us to their level… So if you want to survive "be kind to the robots" :)