Will it work for you or against you?

What would happen if more than one intelligent species existed on Earth?

I would be happy to settle for one intelligent species to begin with. I look at humanity and I find it very hard to describe most of their actions as intelligent. We cure diseases only to pollute our environment increasing cancer and heart failure. We find ways of making more food only to grow less diversity and then refine the goodness out so that we're eating rubbish. We create technology to make our lives easier and then create a whole new raft of ways of reducing our life like obesity and stress. Are these really the evidence of an intelligent species?

This is why I'm not so worried about AI. If it develops an intelligence greater than ours, surely it won't come up with the same short-term stupid thinking we do. By definition, it would seek a better solution. So, maybe it will help us (or coerce us) into fixing the problems we have made

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