Your central argument seems to be a metaphor: We caused the Holocene extinction of animals, so godlike AI will kill us.
The problem with metaphorical arguments is that they can be reversed. As humans have become more intelligent, we’ve started to value animals, created zoos, natural reserves and now even work on the resurrection of extinct animals like mammoths. See more examples of such reversal by Gwern https://gwern.net/modus
Presenting weak arguments is evidence that there are no strong arguments, and this is obvious to outside readers.
The main problem is that we can’t predict what superintelligent AI will do, and thus we can’t 100 percent prove that it will necessarily kill us. But we shouldn’t have to.
Instead, we should show that superintelligence will disempower us and that it may want to kill us for some reasons.
Your central argument seems to be a metaphor: We caused the Holocene extinction of animals, so godlike AI will kill us.
The problem with metaphorical arguments is that they can be reversed. As humans have become more intelligent, we’ve started to value animals, created zoos, natural reserves and now even work on the resurrection of extinct animals like mammoths. See more examples of such reversal by Gwern https://gwern.net/modus
Presenting weak arguments is evidence that there are no strong arguments, and this is obvious to outside readers.
The main problem is that we can’t predict what superintelligent AI will do, and thus we can’t 100 percent prove that it will necessarily kill us. But we shouldn’t have to.
Instead, we should show that superintelligence will disempower us and that it may want to kill us for some reasons.