Does AI mean the end of the human race?

Technology is getting more advanced every day. Engineers are changing our future to the point where soon artificial intelligence will be running on their own. In reality, AI is already living among us; just not as high tech as it will soon get. As of right now, AI lives among us through Social Medias such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, relieved to us that AI lives among us in two different ways by using their social media. AI is said to be able to use basic pattern recognition or “supervised learning”. That means when you use Facebook, the application will be able to recognize what you “like” in order to suggest things that you might like. It was also get used to how you use the app in your own personal way. Unfortunately, AI is not capable of learning new things but it is pretty high tech. We are already becoming Post-humans because machines are now the ones interacting with people using Facebook and suggesting what they should view. Humans are no longer interacting with humans; instead, they use social media to talk to a machine. In my opinion, Facebook is still a Social media device where humans converse with other humans--not machine to human. Although machines are not able to talk to us right now, there will be robots with consciousness and feeling just like humans soon, if AI keeps advancing. Robots are probably going to be the next big thing in the near future. I believe robots can be a great benefit to society because it can help ease our lives. They can be able to help find cures for diseases, perform perfect surgeries, and even make occupations much easier. People like Stephen Hawking believe that if AI ever gets to the point where they can think for themselves then it will be end of existence for the human race. Robots will soon start of by taking the hard working persons job; leaving a lot of people jobless and without enough money to be supported. Our economy will become corrupt. In addition, as soon as robots realized that we are their competition, our human race will be extinct. I do not believe such thing will happen, AI can be used for good; there are other times where technology has actually been used to assist humans. The amount of people that worked on farms in the 1800s was 80 percent of the U.S. labor force and luckily, it is now 2 percent. Technology actually helped our economy by making food cheaper and giving citizens a chance to find a better occupation. If this happened, why couldn’t it happen with AI technology? Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and fiction writer, is trying to calculate the time that robots will be smarter than humans. He believes the time will be soon and there way it can be avoided. Even if our country tries to ban the advancement of AI in our country, the probability that another country creates such an AI is inevitable. AI will give whomever the competitive advantage over the economy, military usage, and even artistic. This can give people an incentive to create such an AI. The day humans interact with robots is considered “the Singularity” by Vinge. When that time comes, who knows what will be happen? Unfortunately, the physical extinction of the human race is a possibility.