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Originally Posted by Skybird
We might benefit from it. But what benefit is there for the AI when it already is superior to us in all regards? It takes two to barter.
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A lot depends on whether we develop alongside the AI, or the AI develops ahead of us. Obviously it's going to overtake us, at which point we can only hope that it takes a more benevolent caretaker role rather than purification. Of course, we judge it and its responses based upon our own fears and emotions, it could calculate that we are useful for something and thus worth development.
Meanwhile at the same time there will be human augmentation underway, enhancing our own body and eventually our mind via machine, and of course, there will be people pushing the other way as hard as they can, trying to stop the tide from coming in, just as there are now.
What benefit is there for the AI? That depends on the AI and its level of development, perhaps it would like to see things from a different perspective. Perhaps it harbors some respect for its creators, and thus rather than ridding the planet of us, it may choose to keep us safely locked away in our own virtual world where we cannot harm reality, and in return the AI gets to undertake research into human development. By manipulating the environment of the virtual reality it can even recreate the circumstances under which the machine was created and observe its own birth and calculate, using the illogical and erratic minds of humanity, the multiple different paths we could take.