"20 years later, 80% of the insects were gone." 80%. In 20 years. The last time a smarter species arrived (humans) it was a MASS-EXTINCTION EVENT We converted 1/3 (!) of Earth into parking lots, crops... It's like WE converted Earth into data centers, from the POV of the animals What happens when AI becomes the smartest species? “The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.” -@ESYudkowsky “The humans do not hate the other 8 million species, nor do they love them, but their habitats are made out of atoms which humans can use for something else.”