> If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it—in this case, to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond—they are going to

> If two different species both want the same thing and only one can have it—in this case, to be the dominant species on the planet and beyond—they are going to have conflict. The term "dominant species" really jumped at me as I was reading this piece. It's so fantastically vague that it begs the question - would us and AI have the same definition for what "dominant" is? We're not building AI individuals with self-preservation instinct, hunger for resources and sexual drive. We're building super-individual systems like Google, Facebook and trading systems, that can be much more intelligent than we are but also have vastly different built-in "purposes" (just as evolution have "built-in" purpose of eating, having sex and caring for our family into us). I think that in the end, the thing we're building will end up much closer to Solaris ocean than Terminator.