How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds us? Or will it instead discover that a certain property of our livers or spleens is the most cost-effective form of lubrication for one of its less important robotic joints, and harvest us for that property, as we now harvest chickens, in battery farms? It’s a fun thought experiment, no?
Perhaps it will find us entertaining, in the same way we find the base animals with whom we share the planet entertaining – my children’s hamster, for example, which for their...
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