You are chaining some big assumptions together to make this conclusion. We can suppose AGI is around the corner, but these other assumptions are massive leaps that would need strong arguments to back them: - AGI thinks similar to humans - AGI knowing we are afraid of it will make it consider humans a threat

Unpacking that second point are the implications that: - AGI considering humans a threat is conditional on our fearing it - AGI seeing humans as a threat is the only reason it would harm humans

I feel like I can rule out these last 3 points just by pointing out that there are humans that see other humans as a threat even though there is not a display of fear. Someone could be threatening because of greed, envy, ignorance, carelessness, drugs, etc.

Also humans harm other humans all this time in situations where there was not a perceived threat. How many people have been killed by cigarettes? Car accidents? Malpractice?

And this is going off the assumption that AGI thinks like a human, which I'm incredibly skeptical of.