Raw LLM Responses

Hello Dr. Hawking, I shared your concern until recently when I heard another AI researcher explain how it's irrational. Specifically, the argument was that there's no reason to be tied to our human form. Instead we should see AI as the next stage in humanity - a collective technological offspring so to speak. Whether our biological offspring or technological offspring go on, should not matter to us. Indeed, worrying about AI replacing us is analogous (albeit to a lesser extent) to worries about genetic engineering or bionic organ replacement. Many people have made the argument that 'playing God' in these respects is unnatural and should not be allowed and this feels like an extension of that. Some of my colleagues have published a few papers showing that humans trust technology more when it's anthropomorphized or that we see things as unnatural as immoral. The worry about AI seems to be a product of this innate tendency to fear things that aren't natural. Ultimately, I'm wondering what you're thoughts are about this? Are we simply being irrationally tied to our human form? Or is there a specific reason why AI replacing us would be detrimental (unless you are also predicting a 'terminator' style genocide)