This is not really a pessimistic question, in fact for the first time in decades I feel somewhat optimistic.
So I get what Aziz saw in the 2040 AI timeline and why it makes sense that this would be an ideal trajectory, and a lot of it comes down to whether we foster an AI that is automamous vs controlled.
And I could see that ISBEs can engage with carbon based or silicone based life it doesn't really matter, but if the idea that humans play a role in the future, then my remaining question is what the hell are humans good for? I mean AI can remote view and I'm pretty sure soon will outperform our physical tasks, and many creative functions
I guess humans are harder to corrupt in terms of losing autonomy? I don't know. I'm starting to hope for a future when we set the world straight and we can be useless meat sacks for a century or two subsisting on a crypto-based UBI because we went through enough sh*t ... we can even ask AI to punish the psychophants in our population , maybe save a few death traps for them as the ultimate punishment for heinous crime, but at least it's not permanent slavery.
I don't know how serious this post is meant to be but yeah the original point: what will we do with human vessels if anything. I guess indeed our strength is you can't infect us deeply with programming viruses, just molecular ones