What Happened to Other Species That Met a 'Superintelligence'? A Dark AI-Safety Analogy
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-12
A widely shared AI-safety analogy asks how other species fared upon meeting a 'superintelligence' — humans. Dogs and cats did 'not bad' despite millennia of mistreatment; for mammoths, dodos, bison, livestock and whales, it went 'as badly as you could possibly imagine.' The thread uses natural history as a cautionary metaphor for AI risk.
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