AFAICT, they don’t even talk about plain old robots killing everyone. That’s a pretty obvious way to exterminate an enemy, even if it does not look respectable.
For another, they seem to limit themselves to scenarios that only use existing tech in existing ways. Like, why assume the AI can’t ramp up nuclear stockpiles massively? Or, more pertinently, dismiss nanotech, not on the grounds of it taking too long to create, but technical feasibility? AFAICT drexlerian nanotech is pretty feasible, let alone programmable biology.
AFAICT, they don’t even talk about plain old robots killing everyone. That’s a pretty obvious way to exterminate an enemy, even if it does not look respectable.
For another, they seem to limit themselves to scenarios that only use existing tech in existing ways. Like, why assume the AI can’t ramp up nuclear stockpiles massively? Or, more pertinently, dismiss nanotech, not on the grounds of it taking too long to create, but technical feasibility? AFAICT drexlerian nanotech is pretty feasible, let alone programmable biology.