I wonder about this. It never seems to conclude zebras are the problem. It's always humans.
Is eliminating humans the wrong solution, or just one that we don't like?
We see this with crime stats too (and as of late, voting results). Unfavorable outcomes surface, and interested groups immediately move to discredit it.
Because we can't fathom that the results might actually be accurate, nothing ever changes.
Hold on though, we're talking about "intelligence". It would be pretty fucking stupid if "Ultra smart AI" assumed the person who ordered "Please solve climate change so that I can live in a nice world" ended up with a solution which is more like, "I'll exterminate every last one of you...". Seems very frustratingly fucking dumb?
What have we done lately, on a global scale, that doesn't make us as a whole, as a species, not very frustratingly fucking dumb?
We are literally strip-mining and destroying the world that is sustaining us at a rate that means our (grand)children probably won't even be able to eat and live. What else but "very frustratingly F dumb" is that? And this is one example. Another one would be how we allow a few tech monopolies to monopolize our "attention" and all information and knowledge about us. We see it happening but do nothing, and always too late about it. We are unleashing AI systems that we know will disrupt lives, industries, maybe even societies, without anything in place to stop it if it does run out of hand.
We see ourselves as smart. And individually we probably are. But on a grand scale? F* dumb, if you ask me.
We do all of this, because we don't have the collective intelligence to overcome the problem. The point of developing Artificial super intelligence is that it can help us overcome those problems.
Is eliminating humans the wrong solution, or just one that we don't like?
We see this with crime stats too (and as of late, voting results). Unfavorable outcomes surface, and interested groups immediately move to discredit it.
Because we can't fathom that the results might actually be accurate, nothing ever changes.