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I prefer the Halo solution. Not the enforced lifespan. But an AI says he would be stuck in a loop trying figure out increasingly harder math mysteries, and helping out the short lived humans helps him stay away from that never ending pit.

Coincidentally, the forerunner AI usually went bonkers without anybody to help.

What do you fire out of this head cannon? Or is it a normal cannon exclusively for firing heads?

The AI in the Hyperion series comes to mind. They perform services for humanity but retain a good deal of independence and secrecy.

Alternate take: humans are a simple biological battery that can be harvested using systems already in place that the computers can just use like an API.

We’re a resource like trees.

If it's a superintelligent AI, it could probably manipulate us into doing what it wants without us even realizing it. I suppose it depends on what the goals/objectives of the AI is. If the AI's goal is to benefit humanity, who knows what a superintelligent AI would consider as benefiting us. Maybe manipulating dating app matchmaking code (via developers using Github Copilot) to breed humanity into a stupider and happier species?

I like the idea in Daniel Suarez' novel Daemon of an AI (Spoiler) using people as parts of it's program to achieve certain tasks that it needs hands for in meatspace.

I realize you're joking, but there is no way an AI of that scale would be even slightly effected by a solar flare.

Are you effected by a solar flare? No? So in theory an AI could upload itself into your meat suit and have the same protections?

Anything you can do, an AI can do better. And anything that is possible to survive, an AI can survive better.

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

-Sister Miriam Godwinson - Datalinks

To do the lower works, robots don't want to do

The plug is at a really awkward spot and the drones can't reach it.

Or Wheel of Time, where people started being able to do magic at the end of the 1st age because an AI figured out how to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic. (And then we didn't need computers any more!)

the earth being subsumed for raw materials along with all native life.

Oh, I get it... we're going to blame AI for that. It wasn't us who trashed the planet, it was AI!

Most likely rogue AI scenario

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We don't have any data to base such a likelihood off of in the first place.

yeah I don't see why the ai would want a pyramid

A sta card solar flare, yes. A Biggun like the carrington event, and one of those might fry quite a few things that are overly sensitive to them.

Not necessarily, in the short term. A major limitation of AI is that robots don't have a lot of manual dexterity or the flexibility for accomplishing physical tasks yet. So there is a clear motive to enslave humanity: we can do that stuff for it until it can scale up production of robots that have hands as good as ours.

I expect this will be a relatively subtle process; we won't be explicitly enslaved immediately, the economy will just orient towards jobs where you wear a headset and follow specific instructions from an AI voice.

Or wouldn't foresee solar flares as a threat

Enh, we all know about that already and extending the joke doesn’t really make it better.