Roman Yampolskiy

There was a benefit to that.

My thought about it was that it would just completely render us benign.

That it wouldn't be fearful of us if we had no control.

That it would just sort of let us exist.

And it would be the dominant force on the planet.

And then it would stop if human beings have no control over, you know, all of the different things that we have control over now, like international politics, control over communication.

If we have none of that anymore and we're reduced to a subsistence lifestyle, then we would be no threat.

It wouldn't be concerned about any life, right?

Because it doesn't need biological life in order to function, as long as it has access to power.

And assuming that it is far more intelligent than us, there's abundant power in the universe.

There's abundant power.

Just the ability to harness solar would be an infinite resource.

And it would be completely free of being dependent upon any of the things that we utilize.

Right.

Right.

Why would it care about biological life at all?

And even if we did, if it felt like that was an issue, if that was a conflicting issue, it would just change its programming.

This is what's so disturbing about this.

It's like we do not have the capacity to understand what kind of level of intelligence it will achieve in our lifetime.

We don't have the capacity to understand what it will be able to do within 20, 30 years.