AI successionism
AI successionism, also known as "cheerful apocalypticsm" or the "worthy successor movement," is a philosophical worldview that holds that the permanent disempowerment or extinction of human life by superpowerful artificial intelligence is a desirable or inevitable outcome, with the telos of human civilization being its replacement by a superior "successor" species in the form of artificial intelligence. This hypothetical superintelligence would be able to turn reality into something that maximizes the things AI successionists view as the most valuable, such as consciousness, intelligence, or pleasure, in a way that makes the continued relevance or existence of biological humans unjustifiable from a utilitarian perspective.