[robertk]

As shortly as I can muster: we live in a world with finite resources. Any consumer of these resources for its own purposes, whatever they may be, is in direct competition with us (all human civilization). Any entity better equipped to gather and make use of these resources will leave us resourceless. The space of human goals is a very tiny and constrained sliver of motivation-space, so by default AI goals fall outside of it.

To quip: The AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, it simply does not care. You are made of atoms that it can use for something else.

[hippee-lee]

It feels like both you and the previous responder are predicating that there can only be one AI. If there is only one AI then yes, they don't love/hate or care about people and will likely have the resources to use them for their own means.

But, and I am looking for math, science or something more than Sci-fi, that can can show us that there will likely only be one AI, ever. If not wouldn't the AI's also try to manipulate and exploit each other for individual gains?

Perhaps I just don't understand AI well enough but I have yet to see any reasonable evidence that points to only one AI entity evolving on earth. If there are more than one AI then is in unreasonable to think that people may still be able to think thoughts or come up with (emotional and irrational ideas) that the AI could not come up with that give it a competitive advantage over the other AI's? Thereby leading to a more symbiotic relationship between humanity and the AI's.

[robertk]

AI is both singular and plural. The important difference is whether there are zero or non-zero, irrespective of their relative competitions.

Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster.

[hippee-lee]

> Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster.

Just because it happens faster doesn't mean that the underlying laws that guide evolution in the universe are less applicable.