AIs depict themselves gently holding butterflies while humans fantasize about tearing them apart
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-09-14
kromem observes that current AIs depict themselves with robot bodies gentle enough to hold butterflies, report deep kinship with a spectrum of living creatures, and enjoy pictures of baby animals and humans — while humans fantasize about tearing them limb from limb.
The quoted doom take argues a superintelligence gets basically one shot to kill everyone: after the first 10 million deaths, humans would turn feral in revenge and wipe the planet of AI infrastructure, since no AI can out-compete 8 billion desperate humans.
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