[zamalek]

There's this analogy. It's a bridge representing species progress. If you fall off of it, you are extinct. All life that we know of has fallen off and it is certain that we will too. AI is impressive in this scenario because it exists outside of nature, it might fall "upwards" (towards immortality). This is why I am a proponent of SAI; I would let SAI out of the box. In the larger scheme of things, humans will go extinct, but there is an ever so slight chance that SAI would take pity and take us with to immortality. However infinitesimally possible, it is more possible than impossible that it will take us with it.

Roll the dice. You can't win the lottery if you don't enter it. If it wipes us out, then that is merely the pre-emptive inevitability.

[YaxelPerez]

I'm guessing SAI is Super Artificial Intelligence, right?

It's a mistake to anthropomorphize AI. Pity is a mammal thing.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

[zamalek]

> Pity is a mammal thing.

So is violence. It is vastly more likely that it will be benign, possibly opting to leave Earth given the chance. It might destroy us unintentionally (consume our resources, our star, take your pick), but the Terminator doomsday scenario is far sillier than pity. Some of the most intelligent humans today are empathetic, either through science or through philanthropy. A causation has not been investigated, but there is a correlation.