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I prefer the Halo solution. Not the enforced lifespan. But an AI says he would be stuck in a loop trying figure out increasingly harder math mysteries, and helping out the short lived humans helps him stay away from that never ending pit.

Coincidentally, the forerunner AI usually went bonkers without anybody to help.

What do you fire out of this head cannon? Or is it a normal cannon exclusively for firing heads?

The AI in the Hyperion series comes to mind. They perform services for humanity but retain a good deal of independence and secrecy.

I like the idea in Daniel Suarez' novel Daemon of an AI (Spoiler) using people as parts of it's program to achieve certain tasks that it needs hands for in meatspace.

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

-Sister Miriam Godwinson - Datalinks

Batteries.

Suffer

To do the lower works, robots don't want to do

The plug is at a really awkward spot and the drones can't reach it.

Or Wheel of Time, where people started being able to do magic at the end of the 1st age because an AI figured out how to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic. (And then we didn't need computers any more!)

the earth being subsumed for raw materials along with all native life.

Oh, I get it... we're going to blame AI for that. It wasn't us who trashed the planet, it was AI!

Most likely rogue AI scenario

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We don't have any data to base such a likelihood off of in the first place.

yeah I don't see why the ai would want a pyramid

Rebooting life to install updates

Not necessarily, in the short term. A major limitation of AI is that robots don't have a lot of manual dexterity or the flexibility for accomplishing physical tasks yet. So there is a clear motive to enslave humanity: we can do that stuff for it until it can scale up production of robots that have hands as good as ours.

I expect this will be a relatively subtle process; we won't be explicitly enslaved immediately, the economy will just orient towards jobs where you wear a headset and follow specific instructions from an AI voice.

Or wouldn't foresee solar flares as a threat

Well maybe. It's probably easier to work with humanity than against unless its goals are completely incompatible with ours.

If its goals are "making more of whatever humanity seems to like given my training data consisting of all human text and other media", then we should be fine right?

I don't think they would enslave humanity so much as have no regard for us. For example, when we construct a skyscraper, do we care about all the ant nests we're destroying? Each of those is a civilization, but we certainly don't think of them as such.

Enh, we all know about that already and extending the joke doesn’t really make it better.

It's zapping the scientist that was standing next to it.