[throwaway7808]

Well, let's hope they will go broke wasting money into the AI research black hole before being able to actually build one :) Otherwise, you are correct. A successful built of super intelligent AI is probably an extinction event for the humans.

[ra88it]

After super intelligent AI, what's special about humans?

[Houshalter]

Define "special". I don't want to be killed to make way for more paperclips.

[JabavuAdams]

We still have pets, and they're rather well taken care of.

[Houshalter]

That's just another human weakness - we anthropomorphize lesser creatures. And even with that, we still don't look before stepping on ants.