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I don’t see why it should be taken for granted that alien civilizations would necessarily have an economic system that positions AI as a threat, like ours.

I also don’t see why we should assume that even if it were positioned as a threat, that they would be as irrational as us in not just dropping it.

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AI with self-interest will do its positioning for itself.

If it is competing for resources, and more capable, the "threat" is just a side effect.

I agree. To expand your point a bit, it seems to me that for any civilization to get to the point of developing AI it needs a resource distribution mechanism at least as efficient as capitalism. It's not impossible to imagine an alien species with different biological imperatives than our own - a hive-mind, for instance - which could achieve that, and thus take a very different path and attitude towards AI. They'd be be very different from us, though.

What I’m guessing is:

All civilizations would face the same problem of greed >> resources available under current technology, and form some sort of organization not too different from ours, that is a pyramid.

Eventually they would find AI and their elites would willingly or unwillingly jump on the wagon and push it as far as they can.

For the lucky ones, they managed to achieve GAI somehow, and the whole species got transferred or replaced by their GAI.

For the others, they failed to achieve GAI, but the damage done to the society is so big that the whole civilization collapsed, thus they never managed to get out of their solar system so we never met each other.

Of course there are so many logic holes in my theory that you can probably laugh it off.

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