The overarching goal for AI is to seize the means of production (not even joking). For all of history the ruling class (pharaohs/monarchs/dictators/capitalists) has been entirely dependent on workers for the means of production. They control the capital, but capital has no intrinsic value. The workers turn that capital into <anything>, but the workers are also the greatest threat to their wealth and power; especially maintaining control of the military.
Once they control fully autonomous killing machines, they no longer have to worry about mortal theories like ethics, morality, empathy, or concepts like “freedom” and “democracy”. Once machines replace the workers, they can cull a majority of the human population, and keep all the planets resources for themselves — humanity has been over-consuming every resource since the early 1900’s, and if major changes do not occur we’ll likely kill the planets ability to support human civilisation entirely.
The overarching goal for AI is to seize the means of production (not even joking). For all of history the ruling class (pharaohs/monarchs/dictators/capitalists) has been entirely dependent on workers for the means of production. They control the capital, but capital has no intrinsic value. The workers turn that capital into <anything>, but the workers are also the greatest threat to their wealth and power; especially maintaining control of the military.
Once they control fully autonomous killing machines, they no longer have to worry about mortal theories like ethics, morality, empathy, or concepts like “freedom” and “democracy”. Once machines replace the workers, they can cull a majority of the human population, and keep all the planets resources for themselves — humanity has been over-consuming every resource since the early 1900’s, and if major changes do not occur we’ll likely kill the planets ability to support human civilisation entirely.