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> AI might keep us around to service their physical infrastructure. They might take control of the resources they want and then ignore us so long as we don’t interfere with them. They might realize that the heat of this planet is not optimal for them and that moving off Earth will give them a more conducive climate and endless resources.

You don't really believe this sort of thing, surely? An AI that doesn't value humans for their own sake might nevertheless find that its goals are best achieved by having some corner of the universe left as a 'human reserve'?

And not even a distant corner! Earth is where it's starting off. It's going to have to dedicate some of the most accessible of all its resources to a project it doesn't care about.

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Ask any tech graduate whether they think that digital computers will become conscious, you will find over half will say yes. The problem of AIs is a reflection of people believing that they are only AIs.

What a parlous state we are in. Our attitudes to AIs show that a large proportion of the population would endorse slavery if they could do it on the sly.

It is astonishing that people do not know what they are. More shocking still, they do not even contemplate what they are.

https://mindover.substack.com/p/a-summary-of-experience

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