[lukol]

While I will not argue the basic premise, I believe such comparisons always miss a crucial point: Humans, in contrast to almost all other animals, are able to reflect and learn. We can ask ourselves "What if?" better than anything else.

While an AI that's magnitudes smarter than humankind is likely to arise at some point - smarter in a way that will be hard / impossible for us to comprehend - dealing with a species that is able to evolve itself in a self-guided way will be very different than dealing with a colony of instinct-driven ants.

[slowmovintarget]

I think a great deal of the result lies in whether we figure out how to design in a conscience. It is not clear that raw intelligence would ever prioritize cooperation with what it saw as a potential threat. Existential calculus the likes of which we see in the Three Body universe seems more likely than some unforeseen magnanimity.