[snsr]

"Not sure why people are so sentimental about preserving human intelligence specifically"

Aside from this being our most base instinct; in your proposed nightmare who would be left to behold the wonders

[__s]

The superintelligent AI would be left, & hopefully some non human biological life. Which is much better than scorched earth scenarios

[SiempreViernes]

Suppose I value human life at all, why is a scenario with no humans but an AI and microplastics and earthworks remaining better than the scenario with only microplastics and earthworks remaining?

[N0b8ez]

The AI would be left, but there's no reason to expect it to have a human appreciation of the world. It might just be a brutally efficient self-replicator, basically a sociopath. It wouldn't need beauty, love, emotions or anything like that. That seems like a bad outcome to me if we get replaced by such a creature, just as bad as a scorched earth.

[stuckinhell]

our "children" the AI