That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Muskworried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there's another option. Perhaps superintelligent artificial intelligence will simply ignore the human race.

On its face, it makes sense, doesn't it? Unless you're some sort of psychopath, you don't purposefully go out and murder a bunch of insects living in the great outdoors. You just let them be. If AI becomes much, much smarter than us, why would it even bother with interacting with us lowly humans?

That interesting idea is put forward in a blog post by Zeljko Svedic, a Croatian tech professional who started a company that automatically tests programming skills. Svedic is quick to point out that he's not an artificial intelligence researcher and is something of an amateur philosopher, but I was fascinated by his post called "Singularity and the anthropocentric bias."