Is artificial intelligence a genuine threat to humanity?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is artificial intelligence a genuine threat to humanity?". Your opponent's style: Monsieur Sautière

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You're claiming AI prevents thinking. That's backwards. AI amplifies intellectual laziness only in people already predisposed to it. The real threat isn't the tool, it's the user who outsources cognition instead of leveraging augmentation. Calculators didn't kill mathematics, they freed mathematicians from tedium. Same principle applies here. Your argument confuses correlation with causation. People who think deeply use AI as a springboard for better ideas, not a replacement for thinking. So the question isn't whether AI stops thinking, it's whether you have the discipline to think harder when given the chance. Do you?