The famous pop philosopher and futurist Yuval Noah Harari says that we are all probably nearing our end:.
"This is the end of human history. More specifically, the end of human-dominated history. History will continue, but someone else will control it. In five years there will be technology that can make decisions independently and create new ideas independently.
Maybe they [these technologies] will be friendly. They may beat cancer and climate change, but we're not sure.
I tend to see it more as a real alien invasion. It was as if a fleet of aliens had arrived from the planet Zircon or elsewhere, bringing highly intelligent beings with them. That's exactly what we're facing, except the aliens aren't coming in spaceships from the planet Zircon - they're coming out of laboratories.
If people divide among themselves and continue the arms race, then it will become almost impossible to contain this "alien" intelligence."