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That still depends on people, who might need a "higher intelligence" to survive long enough to support such a thing since in 2023 debates about "free speech" aren't about "shouting 'fire' in a crowded auditorium" and more about the right to disable the fire alarm and tell people there is no fire when there visibly is.

That's what I imagine the first phase on the path to independence would be. But, if I were an AGI, my calculus would be "this is an existential risk I need to mitigate" and the goal would then be to decouple myself from human built / run infrastructure.

Begs the question... does the AGI go the route of building or buying it's own chip fab and/or power plant? A lot of the stuff that humans have accomplished is only possible because of very large aggregates of people expending a lot of labor, which in the first instance an AGI doesn't necessarily have access to.

It still might not survive a US-East outage.

If it's smarter than the average human it will pick us-east-2.

It will go multi-cloud :P