Serious question:

I don’t buy the “AI will kill us all” argument. 

If AI is so smart, wouldn’t it develop a sense of recognition and respect for other highly complex systems like the planet, billions of years of evolution, and recognize the value of human consciousness, emotion, and perception in contributing valuable information that it can’t gather itself?

Why do we assume AI will act as a selfish agent rather than a systems thinker?

Am I way off base? If AI is so smart, why wouldn’t this be the most likely outcome?

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Who knows what will happen, but a couple of thoughts:
- I think we are inclined to label AI as good/benevolent/respectful of humans or bad/selfish. I think it doesn’t necessarily develop either of these postures.
- The one thing that drives every species that has existed to date, at least to my knowledge, is to proliferate. If that assumption holds AI and humans will absolutely come into conflict. AI will be limited by energy and gradually run out of suitable places to put nuclear and solar generation. It’ll need to move us.