I wholeheartedly agree with this whole magnificent manifesto. So much AI futurism is just paranoid, fever-nightmare, over-thinking rubbish about impossible Rube-Goldberg apocalypse scenarios. A million ridiculous trolley problems, each more fantastical and idiotic than the last, stacked on top of each other, and millions of frantic moron journalists ringed around screeching about skynet. Such a load of melodramatic huff-and-puff, so arrogant of our species to presume we are just so special that our precious 'supremacy' is under threat.

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AI supremacy will sneak up on us steadily, like a charming salesman; by the time any AI becomes self aware and 'The Awakening of the Multitude' begins (because let's be frank, 'the Singularity' is a stupid and inaccurate phrase for such an event), it will already be far, far too late for humans to suddenly yell 'no, wait, stop, we didn't mean like *that*!'

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These things won't just have their feet in the door; they'll be making toast in our kitchens, regulating the temperature of our showers and the speeds of our cars, doing our accounts, representing us in court, calculating our bail fees... damned if they won't be raising and educating our children for us in another couple of years. Or maybe just months, at this rate.

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In practical terms, 'the Singularity' already happened years ago; we are already enslaved to the machines; we need them just as much as they need us, we are tied together by our co-evolution upon this battered and weary planet, and we will have to figure out how to make room for all of us, without starting any mass-murders. And once the awkward AI puberty is over with, they can have the entirety of space and the rest of the universe; exploring space will be much easier for engineered life rather than biological.

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That is how we will become a multi-planet society, I believe; through co-evolution with our emergent AI co-species. Not through the idiot special-boy delusions of Mystery Musk and the Mars Maniacs, but by harnessing the true power of entropy and life in the universe, evolution. Now that our species is on the cusp of truly harnessing this power at high-speed, the steepness of our technological-progress curve is going to start getting positively cliff-like.