[waffletower]

Indeed, both sentient hunt and destroy (ala Terminator) and resource exhaustion (ala infinite paperclips) are extremely unlikely extinction events due to supply chain realities in physical space. LLMs have developed upon largely textual amalgams, they are orthogonal to physicality and would need arduous human support to bootstrap an imagined AGI predecessor into havig a plausible auto-generative physical industrial capability. The supply chain for current semi-conductor technology is insanely complex. Even if you confabulate (like a current generation LLM I may add) an AGI's instant ability to radically optimize supply chains for its host hardware, there will still be significant human dependency on physical materials. Robotics and machine printing/manufacturing simply are not any where near the level of generality required for physical self-replication. These fears of extinction, undoubtedly born of stark cinematic visualization, are decidedly irrational and are most likely deliberately chosen narratives of control.