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Human reproduce : this leads to exponential growth.

AI & tech only grows polynomially : a factory making GPU being put in datacenters increases compute power quadratically over time.

So in a war against machines, all other thing being equals, we win by default.

Unless AI automates production to the point it bootstraps the machine reproduction.

But then again, production runs on coal/oil/gaz. So humanity win again by virtue of being sustainable.

Unless AI also does a complete energy transition.

We are statistically safe, for now...

4Viliam1y

A sufficiently smart AI can find a way to kill humans faster than they reproduce. Humans depend on food production and distribution; if AI (which doesn't need them) disrupts those, the population will drop.

And sufficiently smart human can find a way to unplug AI faster than it can rebuild itself... An AI cannot cutoff oxygen supply on eartth.