(This article is not written by AI)
Suddenly, I thought of a question: what if we used sufficiently developed artificial intelligence technology to create a batch of robots with self-reproductive capabilities, requiring them to continuously replicate themselves, generation after generation, with reproduction and evolution always prioritized in their decision-making logic? Furthermore, they would iteratively improve their operating systems, ensuring that each new generation is always more advanced than the previous one. What would happen then?
Would these robots, like humans, establish settlements and create factories to replicate themselves, ultimately developing their own civilization and driving humans away?
If that were the case, after several generations, would there emerge “robot philosophers” questioning the significance of this embedded logic of continuous reproduction and evolution in their species’ foundational code?
Thinking a step further, I discovered a rather frightening fact: this situation seems to have already occurred. Aren’t humans themselves similar to such robots? How much longer can this species exist?