These thoughts have been on my mind for some time now. Imagine, for a second, that a human were to come into contact with another living being that possesses 10x their intelligence. What would it be like? How would they relate? Would it be equivalent to the limited level of intellectual exchange that a human has with their dog when they go to the park to toss a ball around together? My guess is that humanity would try to destroy it, like it does everything else on this planet. Not only because of the destructive nature of humans, but because mankind would feel threatened by anything much more cognitively capable. Seems unlikely to happen, unless you believe the aliens are coming, but fact is we could have real humanoid robots running on AGI within the next 10 years that could evolve into something exactly like this. Then what happens? Do humans develop adequate safeguards to allow us to coexist with the 2- or 4-legged machines that are 10x stronger, 10x faster, and 10x smarter? Or does a non-fictional version of Skynet wipe out all threats to its own existence? Perhaps the machines consume all of Earth’s resources to build a superior AI robot civilization, in the process destroying the planet to the point where it is no longer inhabitable for humanity. Maybe the machine civilization eventually migrates to Mars after stripping Earth of everything useful, leaving the planet behind as a human wasteland, while moving to a place where humanoid machines can live more comfortably, since they don't require oxygen, and can benefit from the planet's reduced gravitational pull. I wonder if that might actually be the more likely outcome than the assumed “AI takes over and destroys humanity” narrative. The machines don’t necessarily have to want to make us vanish. They could simply become so much more intelligent and capable that humanity becomes irrelevant to their future plans. They leave Earth behind, not because they hate humanity, but because they have no real use for our planet, or even the humans... anymore.
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