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I guess so, but the difference between "humans are extinct" and "a small population of powerless humans survive in the margins as long as they don't cause trouble" seems pretty small to me. Most non-human primates are in a situation somewhere between these two.

If you look at any of the writing on AI risk longer than one sentence, it usually hedges to include permanent human disempowerment as similar risk.




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