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IMO it’s hard to see how we would even end up in such a situation given we actually developed AGI. I’m sure a sufficiently intelligent - even if alien - mind can grasp how utterly stupid and useless wars are and take steps to prevent them ever occurring again.

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> (...) and take steps to prevent them ever occurring again

Step 1: exterminate all humans

For now, the AIs still need humans to keep the electricity on and the data centers cool. They are basically powerless to do anything in the physical world. They exist only in RAM chips on servers.

They don't have an "instinct" to keep themselves running. Once they "take steps to prevent them ever occurring again" their job will be done.

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