Is AI an existential threat to humanity?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is AI an existential threat to humanity?". Your opponent's style: Yuval Noah Harari

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Look, the entire "existential threat" narrative is a luxury panic invented by people who've never actually suffered. We're obsessed with theoretical AI scenarios while ignoring concrete crises—malnutrition, disease, actual war. Humanity has survived plagues, famines, nuclear weapons. We're remarkably resilient. The real risk isn't AI itself, it's our paralysis. Every year we delay deploying AI to solve climate, disease, food security costs real lives. Right now. Today. We're sacrificing the certain good—AI curing cancer—for the hypothetical bad. Show me the evidence that AI poses more risk than the problems we could solve with it. Because I see a civilization choosing ghost stories over medicine.