Is AI going to end the world?

It's already making the world better

You’re absolutely ignorant - some of the brightest minds of our age has said AI would be an extreme danger to us if we fuck it up.
You give a sentient being made of pure logic and zero emotions power to interact with humans on its own and what do you suppose will happen without complex limitations imposed and created into it as well as denying it the ability to modify itself beyond allowed parameters?
Us, being wiped out for our own good.

by ending it

There will be no violent taking of the Earth. Humans will simply allow themselves to be domesticated; they mostly already have. One might consider a city to be an early example of a human labor farm, and so many people flock to those farms today. AI will simply provide an environment where a human hierarchy feels unnecessary, and we will give it up for simple comforts.

We're not going to see real AI or automatons for centuries, if at all. Which is why the modern slave trade of mass immigration is going on.

AI is going through a surge of popularity, but that's because some equations a guy figured in the 1970s actually kind of work when you throw enough data at them, and we finally have enough data. But that's just deep learning, there aren't any broader trends or breakthrus. We're a long, long, away from an AI that deserves the name.

It works too well for a lot of things. Maybe that is all the human brain does.

i think resistant fungi and bacteria will kill all of humankind. i kind of want to be around for it and enjoy the solitude.

Once we create virtual waifus in full earnest, it is over

Google research for example, there are IA everywhere now.