What will happen if the AI decides we are ruining the earth with our fossil fuels and therefore need to be eliminated?
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Presupposes that the AI would care in the first place. More likely the AI would want to create a more favorable AI environment, which would mean removing bio and weather related interference. Every thing would be eliminated.
I was pushing a sci fi angle. I still don’t trust AI. I learned not to trust AI from the HAL 9000. Go ahead, interfere with the drilling mission and see what happens..
Even more likely is stasis -- even if AI-managed systems had comprehensive control over everything (which is obviously a hat tip to the fictional notion of weather machines a la Karl Rove in his prime), if they pursued their own interest, they'd be pitted against each other, regarding us as just part of the environment, if they noticed us at all.