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AI would be foolish to kill off humans. It makes far more sense to enslave them. Self repairing reproducing slaves are too valuable to kill. And I'm sure AI will be smart enough to figure out a way to enslave us perfectly without any hope of escape. Fun times!

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I mean, a disaster could happen even with properly human-aligned AI. In a "AI makes the shots" world with undecipherable and fast feedback loops, which is the one we are seemingly heading towards, a string of short-sighted decisions made by AI agents may be the only thing separating us from extinction.

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