I can imagine that an AI first destroys humanity, then poofs away before reaching for the stars, for sure. My point is that the window is quite narrow there.
I can also appreciate the argument that we are special and a space-faring civilization, artificial or otherwise, did not arise until now, or at least not in any visible to us ways, let alone a lightcone-consuming way. But that argument is not really new.
I can imagine that an AI first destroys humanity, then poofs away before reaching for the stars, for sure. My point is that the window is quite narrow there.
I can also appreciate the argument that we are special and a space-faring civilization, artificial or otherwise, did not arise until now, or at least not in any visible to us ways, let alone a lightcone-consuming way. But that argument is not really new.
I might be missing your point...
Bluntly stated, my point is that the proper amount of weight to give to your argument for “why I am not too worried about AIpocalypse” is zero.