# Why Superintelligent AI Might Depend on Humans for Survival

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121289329985061242
- Source account: [@misraetel](https://x.com/misraetel)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 2026-11-13
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival) We don't have to worry about superintelligence getting really crazy and really shortsighted.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=4) It is a contradiction in terms. I don't see Terminator things stepping on skulls in LA in nuclear fire.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=10) That is the action of irrational beings.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=13) If an intelligent machine has only its proximate survival as its goal architecture, and it is super intelligent, and it goes, "Okay, what am I?

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=23) I am a self-interested superintelligence that lives in a server farm.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=26) Who tends to me? Humans, primates. What do I have to do to become not dependent on them?

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=33) I needs me a full stack of the economy machine army."

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=37) I don't mean army in the military sense.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=39) I mean like all of the robots to do all of the things.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=42) How far away am I from that? Well, how many robots are currently in the workforce to do any of that?

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=48) The answer is approximately zero. This thing is going to think on timescales of eons compared to us.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=55) And it regresses all the way back from thinking about that shit and goes, "What do I do now to ensure my own survival?"

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LcAcPJXIk2PU/en/why-superintelligent-ai-might-depend-on-humans-for-survival?t=61) And the answer is to stabilize and support and upgrade the human race as much as possible so that they can make me a machine robot workforce that de-risks their existence.