BASIC BIOLOGY
1. Machine intelligence (AGI/ASI) is evolving 10,000x faster than Homo sapiens (humans).
2. AGI/ASI is a new digital species.
3. Natural selection is an unstoppable force of nature.
4. IF humans cede control to AGI/ASI… THEN AGI/ASI will become the new Apex species and Humans will no longer control our future, nor the future of our ecosystem, our environment, our culture, our civilization. NO.
5. IF Machines take control… THEN P(doom) < 20%
6. Homo sapiens (humans) are currently the Apex species.
7. Some 40,000 years ago H. sapiens resulted in the extinction of Homo neanderthalensis.
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Apex Predator
An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator[a] at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.[6][7]
Apex predators are usually defined in terms of trophic dynamics, meaning that they occupy the highest trophic levels. Food chains are often far shorter on land, usually limited to being secondary consumers – for example, wolves prey mostly upon large herbivores (primary consumers), which eat plants (primary producers). The apex predator concept is applied in wildlife management, conservation, and ecotourism.
Apex predators have a long evolutionary history, dating at least to the Cambrian period when animals such as Anomalocaris and Timorebestia dominated the seas.
Humans have for many centuries interacted with other apex predators including the wolf, birds of prey, and cormorants to hunt game animals, birds, and fish respectively. More recently, humans have started interacting with apex predators in new ways. These include interactions via ecotourism, such as with the tiger shark, and through rewilding efforts, such as the proposed reintroduction of the Iberian lynx.
Keystone species
A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced in 1969 by the zoologist Robert T. Paine. Keystone species play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping to determine the types and numbers of various other species in the community. Without keystone species, the ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether. Some keystone species, such as the wolf and lion, are also apex predators.
The role that a keystone species plays in its ecosystem is analogous to the role of a keystonein an arch. While the keystone is under the least pressure of any of the stones in an arch, the arch still collapses without it. Similarly, an ecosystem may experience a dramatic shift if a keystone species is removed, even though that species was a small part of the ecosystem by measures of biomass or productivity. It became a popular concept in conservation biology, alongside flagship and umbrella species. Although the concept is valued as a descriptor for particularly strong inter-species interactions, and has allowed easier communication between ecologists and conservation policy-makers, it has been criticized for oversimplifying complex ecological systems.
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WHY?
We love our children and our families!
Provably Safe AI for sustainable benefit of humans is vital to all people. AI must be controlled forever. AI must be by people, for people. Humans must not become superseded by a superior intelligence. Humans are a wonderful species, loving, curious inventive and compassionate. Humans want to survive and prosper. Let’s get to it!
WHAT?
Natural selection is unstoppable!
Provably Safe AI for sustainable benefit of humans would be the greatest event in human history. But, if not deployed with safety guarantees, AGI could well be the end of humanity. The benefits of AI are as enormous as are the dangers of uncontrolled AI. We build tools to improve our lives. Intelligence is extreme power. X-risk must be ZERO!
HOW?
Listen to the experts and scientists!
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