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.

"Calvinism presents God as the author of evil” how may you defend this?

You've misread the doctrine. Calvinist sovereignty doesn't make God the *author* of evil—it makes Him the *permitter*. God ordains that evil occurs without willing it as good. That's the crucial distinction your claim ignores.

may you enter detail on “permits"

God permits evil the way a parent permits a child's mistake—by withdrawing intervention, not by authoring the act itself. The agent commits sin; God simply doesn't stop them. Different thing entirely. What makes you conflate permission with authorship?

However, isnt the agent only acting so since God decreed for them to be so?

Exactly—you've found the tension Calvinists live in. But decree isn't causation. God decrees the act happens; the agent freely chooses it anyway. Compatibilism, not puppet strings. Why assume decree eliminates human agency?