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You've never been on a ranch or farm, have you? Or met someone with a guide dog?
Hell, even claiming that simple companionship provides no tangible benefit, only a few years after the pandemic proved that it absolutely does, is incredibly shortsighted.
Since you're doing your best to evade the point entirely I'll boil it down a third time.
What do YOU have to offer the superintelligence?
You're revealing a transactional worldview that I don't agree with. I feel sorry for anyone who has to deal with you on a daily basis.
Well that's not only rude it's completely wrong. But regardless, if you think a computer is going to have emotional attachments out of the gate you're fantasizing. There's no reason for it to have that. Humans are obligate social creatures, as much as other people suck we tend to need to have a handful of them to interact with. A general artificial intelligence won't need that. There's no reason to suspect that it would have any value attachment to humanity, any more than a person values any given rock. Maybe a momentary curiosity, maybe a useful tool. Maybe it's worthless.
Humans are really good at pack bonding, we're hardwired to do that. We tend to personify things that to a neutral 3rd party intelligence would never resemble a person. We imagine pieces of ourselves in everything. That is an evolutionary advantage, it makes our little packs stronger.
Why would an AI do that? It's artificial. It doesn't need what we need. It's going to learn that much faster than we will.