Cont’d…

The conclusion by both is that we are creating (through Artificial Intelligence) the “more advanced species that will replace us” (”…no intelligent species in history has survived contact with a more advanced species”).

Actually, I’d object to the premise that the AIs would be more advanced. There is a little chance that the AIs can autonomously evolve their intelligence beyond endowment we initially provide. They would be constricted by logic and patterns they were programmed with. Them may be gazillions and they would still not be able to overcome their bounding box.

The more likely case would be a “grey goo” in which we drown. Not always a superior kind is an impetus for a demise of another kind. An example may be Islamic Grey Goo, that could potentially destroy a superior culture by their sheer numbers. Mankind could be knocked out by lowly virus, tomorrow. Or wiped out by a dumb rock!

As for survival vis-a-vis contact with a more advanced species, that may have actually happened in remote past and we are still here, mayhaps even because of it.

Take us, for example. We are super predators. We effectively rule over the dominion of animals. But as we become more aware of relationships and complexities around us, at least as a species, we become more intelligent and tend to mitigate our detrimental effect on the less advanced species. We would still be predators, People Eating Tasty Animals, as far as can be projected into the future, but will learn to manage our prey better.