We're already in the middle of what is very likely our human-made extinction event, and we're worried about AIs?<p>If anything our rather alarming denial over our impending extinction is an existential threat to AIs.<p>If nobody is around to keep the generators going and manufacturing these cool silicon-chip doohickies, there isn't going to be much of an opportunity for Sky-ChatGPT-Net to come up with "Cogito ergo sum" much less "Kill! All! The! Humans!" (or more passive functional equivalents).