Maybe en masse we&#x27;re about as genetically smart as our cultural bias allows us to become? We keep modifying classic &#x27;natural selection&#x27; through social programs, etc. Great as a cultural &#x27;feel good&#x27; and it helps our species to survive in other ways, but...what we do doesn&#x27;t favor intelligence.<p>AI&#x27;s won&#x27;t have that emotional baggage.<p>It will be easier first develop a way of getting around the &#x27;human emotions problem&#x27;, then likely leapfrog us entirely at the rate a Pareto curve allows.<p>I can&#x27;t think outside my human being-ness, so I have no idea what is going to happen when something smarter appears on the planet, except to point out there once were large land animals (ancestors of the giraffe and elephant) on North America until humans arrived.<p>My fear-based response screams YES MAKE IT OPEN.<p>However it shakes out, I think it&#x27;ll be messy for human beings. We&#x27;re not exactly rational in large groups. The early revs of AI (human controlled) will be used for war.<p>One has to ask what grows out of that besides better killers?