> Probably not any consolation to the Neanderthal or any other animal species that is out-competed in nature. It is not clear from the geological record if the

> Probably not any consolation to the Neanderthal or any other animal species that is out-competed in nature. It is not clear from the geological record if the Neanderthal was "outcompeted" except in the broadest possible terms - i.e. a unique species of Neanderthal no longer exists genetically. But that doesn't tell us what happened in the interim - i.e. modern day humans can have up to 4% neandertal origin DNA[1]. So, did "humans" wipe out neanderthals? Or did human plan genetics simply become the more dominant type, no malevolent will required, and does that matter? Because for a whole lot of people - myself included - the explicit goal of technology like AI is something which from a fossil record would look like human extinction - that's the whole idea of transhumanism, that ultimately we would become something sharing perhaps only a glancing similarity with our ancestors. All the rest of the problems you talk about suffer from a lack of detail - namely, they assume a quantum leap in technological capability with no intervening steps - i.e. there is a single AI, or that AIs are better negotiators or what have you - as soon as you get into the details, the threat model proposes evaporates because we just don't know - the technology doesn't exist (i.e. it would all be a lot more interesting if fully automated production lines were already around, but we're nowhere near that). [1] https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an...