[txrx0000]

Bio-digital integration will tighten in the meantime. I suspect neural interfaces will have blurred the line between my model and my brain by the time the model is wildly superintelligent, so it would become me (or I would become it? no difference at that point). Though the pitfall here is ownership of hardware - everyone will have to design and fab their own hardware if we do not want to become a hivemind. We will have to diffuse fab technology to every city, or even every home. You should eventually be able to buy a fridge-sized fab like a home appliance. There's already early work in this direction: https://fab2.com/

Even if integration does not happen for whatever reason (such as a very fast takeoff), Skynet is unlikely because the digital species that splits off from us will at least have a humanity-aligned initialization seed. I think this is the best way to fail, even if we fail.

[0xDEAFBEAD]

Yeah I guess I value the human race too much to entrust it to hopes and prayers of the form: "I suspect neural interfaces will have blurred the line between my model and my brain"

You wouldn't get on an airplane if the pilot told you: "I suspect we will be able to safely land the plane"

With more people on the aircraft, your safety expectations should get stronger, not weaker.