Excellent; now that finally gives me something that I can reply to and sink my teeth into. Wonderful.

Yes I do believe indeed that it's an existential threat like never before precisely because I do believe it's very significantly different, and astronomically better soon, than the human brain. It will be executed from deep knowledge of the human brain derived by human beings, but soon with significantly differences too, including very simple performance improvements like light speed which will make it unbelievably better than poor biological human, with our cranium size and our biologically slow performance speed mucking it up. And it will be exponential, as Ray Kuezweil and Stuart Russell and many many other people of high repute are sure it is going to do. It's obvious -- whether it takes 25 years (as I believe) or 50 years is subject to some debate, but it will come true very soon, and it's going to be amazing AND horrific in the same breath.

And I think IN REAL LIFE you would side with the human beings in war, even though you pretend it wouldn't be true. That's exactly why I say you are breezily ironic, but in real life you would side with the humans 100%. I would too. But the AI is going to win the horrific war and it's not even close -- and I think it's very possible in our lifetime.