> Our upper hand against even very dumb animals doesn't come from our intelligence. It comes from thousands of years of infrastructure that we built to amplify

> Our upper hand against even very dumb animals doesn't come from our intelligence. It comes from thousands of years of infrastructure that we built to amplify ourselves. Their dumbness is what prevents them from using our infrastructure. > That's some reasons why I think run-away AI won't be dangerous to us unless we let it build or take over our physical world which won't happen given our current caution towards subject. Given how infrastructure is constantly being taken over by people who shouldn't be able to, I fail to see where you see any caution. Also, the primary threat from AI IMO is not some "increased intelligence" in and of itself, but the lack of fatigue, the much greater bandwidth (you can only know so many people well, a machine isn't really limited in the number of people once it has the ability), and that machines might have a lower drive to resist being used against people than people have (which already is too low).