Consider just one aspect of AI that is damaging enough. You may understand that AI is only statistical data modeling, relying on existing models to output slightly altered output. As more AI output is added to the models and no new real output added, the biases will never change. Humanity will be forever stuck and regress as the original data gets displaced by corrupted data.

‘I want to be human.’ My intense, unnerving chat with Microsoft’s AI chatbot.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-bing-hands-on/

Title had me

Then I started in. According to the author ....

First species ending threat: Atom bomb

Second threat: Climate change ("seriously guys let's not minimize the threat of human made climate change guys")

Third threat: Artificial General Intelligence™ (AGI)!!!!

Alright, I'm out.