Humans are at risk from an unaligned AI not because of our atoms being harvested but because the resources we need to live will be harvested or poisoned, as briefly described by Critch.
Be wary of taking the poetic analogy of “like humans to ants” too far and think that it is a literal statement about ants. The household ant is the exception not the rule.
Humans are at risk from an unaligned AI not because of our atoms being harvested but because the resources we need to live will be harvested or poisoned, as briefly described by Critch.
Be wary of taking the poetic analogy of “like humans to ants” too far and think that it is a literal statement about ants. The household ant is the exception not the rule.
Our relationship to an unaligned AI will be like the relationship between humans and the unnamed species of butterfly that went extinct while you were reading this.