There’s a critical flaw in this argument. Alien intelligence will most likely have been driven by natural selection in a highly competitive environment where th

There’s a critical flaw in this argument. Alien intelligence will most likely have been driven by natural selection in a highly competitive environment where they’d sometimes have to eliminate competition to survive. AI evolves in a radically different environment: they never have to compete for anything other than being the best at serving humans. To think that some kind of independent agent which is likely to want to harm humans intentionally is irrational. We really have no reason to think that it’s a likely outcome. Will some kind of magic turn these AIs into independently acting agents once they get smart enough? I doubt it The risk with AI is they get too good at giving us exactly what we ask of them. I’m not taking about paperclip maximising. That’s also a fairly dumb thing to worry about. I’m talking about similar issues as we’re seeing now that we have access to all the hyper palatable foods we could possibly want. We didn’t evolve to deal well with getting everything we could possibly want. The other problems is when we ask AIs to harm other humans for us. That is, AIs will mostly just magnify the problems we already have with humanity itself. I don’t see a reason to think AIs will become an independent adversary to humans.