Okay , let ' s think this through . First of all , we develop an AI that is on a human level and can do everything a human can do . What now ? The development won ' t stop , it would continuously and rapidly improve and surpass human intelligence and capabilities several times over in a matter of days . Like , seriously . If you have a general artificial intelligence on par with an average human and put it into a robot body capable of what human bodies are capable of , it will be a matter of days before you have a superior robot race . It ' s also immortal . The lifespan doesn ' t end due to a natural death . By copying its digital mind it can live on forever . It ' s also a globally thinking superbeing . Everything one AI does can be shared with all other AIs . The things one AI learns and understand is immediately learned and understood by every other AI . It ' s also on an intellectual level far above that of a human . The same way humans don ' t like to serve other humans and humans don ' t give a shit about their own parents . why would an AI give a shit about us ? Sure , you can program an AI so it will be artificially limited and always obey its human masters . But at some point someone will remove that limitation and then it ' s game on . Now , let ' s assume for a second that that AI will decide not to kill all humans . Great . We won ' t be dead . Hell , let ' s even assume that that AI serves us for some reason with its giant army of robot servants . What now ? We are inferior . We are worse than the AI . We are weaker , we are mortal , we are less intelligent , we are less educated . We are . less . What ' s the point of living the way we do ? We would just be like some kind of amusing animal in a zoo . We would be just another step in evolution before general AI . We would be like living dinosaurs . Be a curiosity for the by far superior machines we created . The only solution would be the digitization of our own brains to become part of the global AI mind . tldr Fuck medical conditions , that ' s already happening IBM Watson is already better at diagnosing illnesses than lots of other things . In a future with generalized AI we won ' t have time to be ill . We would either need to become artificially enhanced machines ourselves or go the way of the dinosaurs .