Gardening accident kills ant colony, fueling AI doom analogy debate
justalexoki · x · 2026-09-28
justalexoki describes accidentally destroying an ant colony while trimming the garden — no hatred, no malice, the ants were just in the way. The reply thread uses it to argue against those mocking 'superintelligent AI would naturally kill everyone': a superior intelligence can crush humans without malice, just as humans destroyed the ants' home without even thinking about it.
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