Jeff Ladish: superintelligences wouldn't find human extinction hard — habitat loss alone may finish us
JeffLadish · x · 2026-09-10
AI safety researcher Jeff Ladish lays out an extinction-scenario thread:
- Human extinction 'wouldn't be very hard for superintelligences'; for weaker AI the bottleneck is fully automating the supply chain, until which humans remain key complements.
- He expects the point of no return arrives before full automation, and once the RSI loop closes, automating the supply chain gets easy quickly.
- With many robust robots plus superhuman hacking, an AI could disable the world's militaries and protect key infrastructure — no need to kill everyone who poses no threat; misaligned AIs likely won't be 'completionists' about it.
- Remaining humans probably die anyway as all land gets repurposed for advanced industry: habitat loss.
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