[oefnak]

They would run the risk of us creating another AI that could be a threat to them... It is safest for them to make sure.

[IggleSniggle]

That's like saying a panda might pose a threat to modern humanity. Like, maybe in some fun horror story, sure, but really they just want to eat bamboo, and occasionally make more pandas; in the world of superintelligent AI, humans are Mostly Harmless, posing as much "potential benefit" as "potential risk," ie, so slow moving that any risk would be easy to mitigate.

[rel_ic]

We're killing millions of chickens in the US right now so we don't get their cold