If I could talk to an ant I would because it would be interesting. I don't have to explain a concept to them in a way that is acceptable to me, I can just have

If I could talk to an ant I would because it would be interesting. I don't have to explain a concept to them in a way that is acceptable to me, I can just have a conversation because it is a unique experience. Just because life is meaningless doesn't mean you need to reach for a Nihilistic take, Existentialism accepts that life is meaningless but says that you create meaning for yourself. Maybe an AI would think it an interesting challenge to level up human consciousness through conversation? Plus, Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean Artificial Super Intelligence. Perhaps we are already near the ceiling of consciousness? Perhaps the only thing that happens when you learn the internet is that you know more facts about things? Perhaps AI can have a hold PHD in every field at once, but that doesn't necessarily make them any better than the top 1% in those individual respective fields? Perhaps running these intelligence models discretely in silicon comes at an inherent disadvantage, and it will take decades to ramp up silicon manufacturing efforts even by AI to achieve super intelligence or to have a large number of agents? Who knows?