Taking an extreme perspective here: do future generations of people not alive and who no one alive now would meet have any value?
One perspective is no they don’t. From that perspective “humanity” continues only as some arbitrary random numbers from our genetics. Even Clippy probably keeps at least one copy of the human genome in a file somewhere so it’s the same case.
That is, there is no difference between the outcomes of:
we delay AI a few generations and future generations of humanity take over the galaxy
we fall to rampant AIs and their superintelligent descendants take over the galaxy
If you could delay AI long enough you would be condemning the entire population of the world to death from aging, or essentially the same case where the rampant AI kills the entire world.
Taking an extreme perspective here: do future generations of people not alive and who no one alive now would meet have any value?
One perspective is no they don’t. From that perspective “humanity” continues only as some arbitrary random numbers from our genetics. Even Clippy probably keeps at least one copy of the human genome in a file somewhere so it’s the same case.
That is, there is no difference between the outcomes of:
we delay AI a few generations and future generations of humanity take over the galaxy
we fall to rampant AIs and their superintelligent descendants take over the galaxy
If you could delay AI long enough you would be condemning the entire population of the world to death from aging, or essentially the same case where the rampant AI kills the entire world.