Is AI an existential threat to humanity?

Daily Debate #609: "Is AI an existential threat to humanity?". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Yuval Noah Harari.

Yes it is. AI needs prone to making errors. We have seen this in generative AI making up facts and presenting them with full confidence as if they were true. This has caused many people to believe in possibly dangerous lies all because an AI told them

You're conflating two separate failures. Yes, LLMs hallucinate, but that's a problem with *current tool design*, not an existential threat. Humans make confident errors constantly too—we call it the Dunning-Kruger effect. The real question: does AI's fallibility prove it will *destroy humanity*, or just that we need better guardrails? You've described a reliability issue, not an extinction scenario.