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We’re marching toward the singularity, the day when artificial intelligence is smarter than us. That has some very smart people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Muskworried that robots will enslave or destroy us—but perhaps there’s another option. Perhaps superintelligent artificial intelligence will simply ignore the human race.

On its face, it makes sense, doesn’t it? Unless you’re some sort of psychopath, you don’t purposefully go out and murder a bunch of insects living in the great outdoors. You just let them be. If AI becomes much, much smarter than us, why would it even bother with interacting with us lowly humans?

That interesting idea is put forward in a blog post by Zeljko Svedic, a Croatian tech professional who started a company that automatically tests programming skills. Svedic is quick to point out that he’s not an artificial intelligence researcher and is something of an amateur philosopher, but I was fascinated by his post called “Singularity and the anthropocentric bias.”

Svedic notes that most interspecies conflicts arise out of competition over resources or out of what he calls irrational behavior for the long-term survival of a race. Destroying the Earth with pollution probably isn’t the smartest thing we could be doing, but we’re doing it anyway. He then suggests that a superintelligent race of artificial intelligence is likely to require vastly different resources than humans need and to be much more rational and coldly logical than humans are.