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I expect no more than 1000 human survivors. Superintelligence likely turns the world from a wordcel/charisma game into a 4X game - Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate. One person or one team secures total world dominance with AIs as their soldiers, spies and workers. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and they dispense with everyone in favour of doing whatever they please themselves. Or the AI goes rogue and posthumously renames us to homo insipiens for our foolishness.
I know it sounds kind of cringe and naive sci-fi but that's what superintelligence truly means. It means humans are no longer relevant, sovereign or important in any way except in so far that we may control an AI. By ourselves, we're just pinatas that can be thrashed for easy loot by beings that neither rest nor know mercy.
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