But maybe it think about art a lot. Or maybe we can&#x27;t cut out sleep without harming our ability to reason. Or maybe the AI would be more interested in watching youtube videos than working in the field of AI.<p>The only human level general intelligence we have to look at is humans. Sure, it&#x27;s possible that there&#x27;s an easy way to build an artificial intelligence that doesn&#x27;t need to sleep and isn&#x27;t interested in art but that retains our ability to problem solve; but maybe their isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s possible that we&#x27;ll be able to easily figure out that alternative brain architecture and build in the near future; but given how little we still don&#x27;t understand about our own brain (and the failure to mimic the brains of even simple creatures), it doesn&#x27;t seem likely. It&#x27;s possible that if we were able to overcome those major hurdles, a super John von Neumann would be able to wield enormous political power; or it&#x27;s possible that, like the real von Neumann, it would focus mostly on its research.<p>In order to get to the AI doomsday scenario, you have to assume that a lot of very unlikely things are all going to happen. And the main argument for them happening seems to be one of ignorance - &quot;hey, we don&#x27;t have any idea what this will be like, so we can&#x27;t say that this improbable situation won&#x27;t happen.&quot;