At least for now, people are dominant species on the planet Earth. Humans are afraid of AI takeover because, obviously, humans can loose its domination and come to extinction. But!

Inside the species, there is complex structure between rich, powerful, poor, and many others categories. Also different groups and individuals has different level of power.

What does power give to the group/individual? More resources and ability to implement its own will. But what resources would AI need? What “will” it would “want” to have?

At the bottom, human’s will to power is drived by reasons of self-replication. It works without higher cognitive level - unconsciously. It works with much older structures of the brain, “reptile brain”

But human fears about AI are related to “technical brain that has more cognitive power”, which does not include chemicals that drives human’s brain and that is drived by other chemicals Chemistry is the tool that gave replicator availability to replicate

Based on Richard Dawkins’s “Egoistic Gene”, replicators are special molecules that encourage environment to create same molecules. In case of planet Earth it is DNA. In more broad view - it is something that encourage environment to replicate it, replicators carry knowledge of the niche that is able to replicate them

That replicators led to creation of the monocells , as cell afford replicators to be replicated with higher chances. It led to multicell creation that led to organism creation that led to …->…-> that led to creation of humans

So, possibly it can be desirable scenario for human species - to become “reptile brain” to AI as it let replicators to replicate. I will try to provide my thought below:

Nowdays humans rely on computer’s opinion a lot. I remember the comment of my friend about their educational service startup - service’s advisemnt regarding grades for pupils are 90% correlate to what teacher finally put. It is because its much easier to rely on existing solutions - same effect as body parts donation after death - in those countries where the default option is to donate body to science, the level the donation is up to 90%, instead of 5-6 % where it is non-default option

This tendency can be seen in media - TV moved source of new information from real world to the living room where this TV set stands, modern (anti)social media brings it even closer to us - we can be phisically anywhere, but at the same time be “inside” our own information fields and it can lead to treat all that is happening around us as “decoration” to the “real world” - media becomes world. But media in itself is indirect way of receiving information And media are controlled by structures with authority. As we saw from very recent history, this pendulum of control in media - from web2.0 whith hopes that control be drived by people back to media that are controlled by power strucures

So, if tendency will be the same, we will rely on computers and media more and more. Someday, even if AI will take over, we probably will not notice it - we will still comsume (anti)social media or whatever it will be the name of it in the future. Apart from media, AI is in much more other structures - from contruction to cooking. And people will rely on this “tool”

Critical thinking, ability to check information’s and knowledge’s adequacy to the world are still among top skills to train, as it was in pre-historic times. As it is written in the New Testament - “come and see”, I translate it as “do fact check on what is happening in reality by your own self, not by media”. And I see it becomes more difficult

But, if it is all is part of us with so deep interconnection, it all can be just a next step in evolution. AI is trained mostly on data that is produced by humans, so that data is in cognitive architectures . Even if we have most of the models created independently, most of it produces them around human activity

So, in the end it can happen that “AI takeover” is actually creatioin of new structure that live with humans integrated in it - we can be “reptile brain” to the new evolution step, which is happening right now, just with more complex structures. Humans already had it many many times before - from 150 social structures max to global village