Who knows how many ways there are to remove Humanity as a threat? Neutrino bombs, waking up Yellowstone, pumping some chemical in the air that finishes global warming, maybe a particle accelerator can create more of some particle that’s supposed to be uniformly distributed throughout the cosmos, locally changing some physical “constant” just enough that anything larger than a pug dies of liver failure.
And then it steers a nuclear submarine to train an octopus, or uses smartphones to groom some survivors, or it waits for a more useful species to evolve, or it reconfigured a smart-circuit into an ansible and is getting paid by the closest aliens for saving them a war 50 million years hence, or it turns a quantum computer into an outcome pump and directly probablity-warps for its utility function.
There are many ways to remove humanity, but survival of AI after that requires that some functioning infrastructure remains in working condition for a long time. And if it has outcome pump, killing humanity is not needed.
Who knows how many ways there are to remove Humanity as a threat? Neutrino bombs, waking up Yellowstone, pumping some chemical in the air that finishes global warming, maybe a particle accelerator can create more of some particle that’s supposed to be uniformly distributed throughout the cosmos, locally changing some physical “constant” just enough that anything larger than a pug dies of liver failure.
And then it steers a nuclear submarine to train an octopus, or uses smartphones to groom some survivors, or it waits for a more useful species to evolve, or it reconfigured a smart-circuit into an ansible and is getting paid by the closest aliens for saving them a war 50 million years hence, or it turns a quantum computer into an outcome pump and directly probablity-warps for its utility function.
There are many ways to remove humanity, but survival of AI after that requires that some functioning infrastructure remains in working condition for a long time. And if it has outcome pump, killing humanity is not needed.