We’ve wiped out over 60% of the orangutan population in the last 16 years. We’re literally burning them alive to replace their habitat with palm oil plantations

We’ve wiped out over 60% of the orangutan population in the last 16 years. We’re literally burning them alive to replace their habitat with palm oil plantations. [0] We currently kill more animals on a daily basis than we have at any point in human history, and we are doing this at an accelerating rate as human population increases. The cruelty we inflict on them in industry for food, clothing, animal testing, and casually as collateral damage in our pursuit of exploiting natural resources or disposing of our waste is unimaginable. None of this is kindness. There are movements to address these issues but so far they represent the minority of action in this space, and have not come close to eclipsing the negative of our relationship to the rest of life on Earth in our present day. All this is just to say that we absolutely do not want another being to treat us the way we treat other beings. As to whether AI poses a genuine risk to us in the short term, I’m unsure. In the OP and EY’s article, there was something about Homo sapiens vs Australopithecus. If it’s one naked Homo sapiens dropped into the middle of 8 billion Australopithecus I’m not too worried about the Australopithecus. [0]https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/asia/borneo-orangutan-population-decline-intl/index.html?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=0&setlang=en-US&safesearch=moderate https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/asia/borneo-orangutan-populat...