ants are a bad comparison—they’re tiny, not very competitive for resources we need, and ridiculously difficult to kill. Humans are large, fragile, and greedy. They’re EASY to kill—in fact, they probably mostly die if you disrupt their social equilibrium very much.
A better comparison than ants would be Dodo birds—not even explicitly killed off, they died as a side-effect of introducing pigs and cats to the wrong place. Or any endangered species—not actually extinct, but certainly any bright expansive future for them is off the table.
The underlying question is “will humans expand throughout the galaxy/universe”. Unaligned AI takeover can easily mean “no”. Of course, so can aligned AI...
ants are a bad comparison—they’re tiny, not very competitive for resources we need, and ridiculously difficult to kill. Humans are large, fragile, and greedy. They’re EASY to kill—in fact, they probably mostly die if you disrupt their social equilibrium very much.
A better comparison than ants would be Dodo birds—not even explicitly killed off, they died as a side-effect of introducing pigs and cats to the wrong place. Or any endangered species—not actually extinct, but certainly any bright expansive future for them is off the table.
The underlying question is “will humans expand throughout the galaxy/universe”. Unaligned AI takeover can easily mean “no”. Of course, so can aligned AI...