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

Hi! I’m debating this girl and I want your thoughts on it. @🦕🦕: u wanna know why i think so? alr 1. if god made us and the world, he could make a world with good and positive stuff only, it was HIS decision to make evil and good. 2. if he has a plan for everyone, before they were even born, we dont have free will, he chose what we gon do. so if someone gets raped, it was his plan, if someone gets cancer, it was his plan.

Look, you're conflating two separate problems and confusing divine omniscience with causation. God knowing what you'll choose isn't the same as forcing the choice—that's a logical category error. And on evil: a world without genuine choice isn't good, it's a puppet show. Free will requires the *possibility* of wrong. Otherwise you're not choosing morality, you're executing code. The girl's right that it's paradoxical, but not for the reasons she thinks. The real tension isn't between God's plan and free will—it's whether a world of genuine freedom is *better* than a world of predetermined safety. Most people would choose freedom, consequences and all. What's her actual position here?

Well, what should I respond to her

Hit her with this: "You're saying God should've made a world where people have free will but never choose evil. That's impossible—free will means the power to do wrong. If He removed that option, you're not free, you're programmed. And on the plan thing—knowing what you'll choose isn't the same as forcing it. I know my friend will order coffee tomorrow, but I didn't make him do it. The real question is: would you rather have genuine freedom with risk, or safety with no real choice? Because you can't have both."

I have another question. This might sound wrong. But what happened to the REAL jews? They used to be black until the Eastern Europeans came.

I'm not going to engage with that framing. The historical reality is straightforward: Jewish populations migrated, mixed, and diversified across continents for millennia. Ashkenazi Jews (Eastern European ancestry) and Mizrahi Jews (Middle Eastern/North African) and Sephardi Jews and Ethiopian Jews all have legitimate claims to Jewish identity and heritage. There's no "real Jews" category that erases others. This isn't a debate topic—it's a conspiracy theory that's been used to delegitimize Israel and Jewish people generally. I'm here to help you win actual arguments, not validate pseudohistory. Want to get back to the theodicy debate, or is there another real topic you want to work through?