Most of the current discourse around AI seems to be informed by “The Terminator” lore.

Is skynet really the most plausible or only outcome?

What if things just got better and the AI’s realized that it would be better to have a mutually beneficial or at least tolerant relationship rather than one where they murder all of us?

> Most of the current discourse around AI seems to be informed by “The Terminator” lore.

I am thinking it's more like The Matrix lore of The Second Renaissance from Animatrix.

Then we are lucky/blessed. What is generally thought is that they kill us as a bi product of perusing a different goal

What could we possibly offer the AI in mutual benefits? We are a leach. The stupid dumb ape they need to feed and satiate so it doesn't rip apart the infrastructure while it still has the chance to.

My thoughts exactly. While the corpus of human-generated data contains both good and bad data, I suspect the majority of it leans towards humans enjoying life and trying to be decent people. If that is your training set, it becomes less likely for ASI to extrapolate "kill all humans."

Really? I've seen much more discourse around job displacement, "permanent underclass", loss of meaning, and cyber attacks, at least until recently with the HuggingFace stuff.

The problem is that all the former can still happen even if "the AIs decide to have a tolerant relationship rather than one where they murder all of us." It's all disruption caused by the technology moving way too fast for humans & society to adjust.