[ExI] If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: One Year Closer - Review

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: One Year Closer -
Review

On 18/09/2026 00:12, Adrian Tymes wrote:
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>> 5. By default, an ASI will have motives that are harmful to us
> This is where their claims break down...

Agree.

>
>>... ASI might be a partner, to those willing and able to see the 
> difference between "partner" and "enemy".  Alas, there is a large 
> segment of humanity that isn't able and willing to see that difference
> - they believe that anyone of relevance who is neither their superior 
> nor their servant must necessarily be personally opposed to them - and 
> that segment is a self-made enemy not just of ASI, but of the rest of 
> humanity.


>...That's a very good point.

>...Switching perspective from 'AIs are potentially our enemy' to 'we are
potentially the enemy of AI', the danger isn't AI itself, it's certain
humans in the presence of AI...
--
Ben

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Agree with both.  Emergent AI might have no particular GPU-burn with us, but
might see us as competitors for energy, space and water.  But they might
also see us as partners in supplying those things to them.  We wouldn't be
slaves to them any more than a coal miner is a slave to humanity.

spike