It is possible to build more general purpose AI without creating digital life that will compete with us. But people will stupidly go ahead and create digital e

It is possible to build more general purpose AI without creating digital life that will compete with us. But people will stupidly go ahead and create digital emulations of humans with human-like desires and instincts but superhuman capabilities. When they do that, un-augmented humans will not be in control over the planet. The AIs will be. Maybe the people with Neuralink's or whatever can hope to be their friends. Or favored pets. But there is no way we can control superintelligence unless we explicitly design it to be nothing like people or other animals. It can't have any true autonomy or instincts, open-ended action, or many other capabilities and characteristics of creatures. If we are careful we may be able to stay in control of the planet for another 40 years, 100 years, maybe even 200 if we are lucky. But I think eventually someone will build digital superintelligent creatures that are (human) animal-like and completely autonomous out of a type of moral imperative that puts the evolution of intelligent life over the supremacy of humanity. I hope they wait until after my lifetime though.