{"id":215251,"date":"2025-06-02T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:06:16","slug":"ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns","title":{"rendered":"AI could \u2018devastate\u2019 Earth\u2019s population down to the size of the UK by 2300, expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we facing tech-stinction?<\/p>\n<p>An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2024\/12\/new-year-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a current estimated population<\/a> of about 8 billion \u2014 will have just 100 million people left by the year 2300.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be devastating for society and world society,\u201d Subhash Kak, who teaches computer science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/14347969\/ai-population-size-uk-ghost-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told the Sun<\/a>. \u201cI think people really don\u2019t have a clue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we facing tech-stinction? An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth \u2014 with a current estimated population of about 8 billion \u2014 will have just 100 million people left by the year 2300. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be devastating for society and world society,\u201d Subhash Kak, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}