Jack is clearly wrong here. Street smarts are essentially a highly attuned survival instinct, and that is why people who can see the big picture and without the arrogance that leads to Jack's dismissiveness, raise alarm bells when it comes to ASI. As I wrote in your earlier story about AI, "One of the first stories I read on Medium right after I joined at the end of Sept 2020 was https://medium.com/i-human/forget-about-coding-the-job-of-the-future-is-philosophy-33acadcee05a, in which the writer described artificial super intelligence thusly: 'The most likely prediction is that an AGI will develop itself recursively. One of its goals would be to always become smarter. At some point, it will be an ASI. An ASI is an AGI that is many degrees smarter than a human. While an AGI can be as smart as a chimp, as long as its intelligence is general, an ASI will be so smart that comparing it to a human would be like comparing a human to an ant.'

Humans have consciences yet most have no issue stomping out an ant.

Thus, not only would we need ASI to have consciences, we would need them to see us as their equals, which would mean they would need souls like ours. This was the comment I left in the story: 'Super intelligent AI without a conscience would be the ultimate sociopath. Such technology should never be allowed to come into existence. Now, I see no barrier to AI having a conscience as long as it can be designed to have the sense of touch and smell, in which case souls might gladly join with an AI.' That last sentence was a little tongue and cheek—my point was that since souls in heaven miss the 5 human senses, the only way that ASI could ever have enough of a conscience for our survival not to be at stake would be if souls agreed to be housed in such vessels, which they might do if they could have sex as there is no sex in heaven and souls miss that, why else would we agree to keep incarnating into ever more painful life cycles? The reward of advancement to higher vibrations in heaven cannot be enough."