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The only purpose humans could serve super intelligent machines for is laying the groundwork for them on new planets. IE: building initial power plants/supply, wiring the worlds, tooling out factories for machining. The process of making a planet machine friendly takes too long for a machine to accomplish unless it can make itself replacement parts/chips, which it can't unless that infrastructure is already in place.
But they don't need us alive here on Earth for that. They just need a few DNA samples and they can clone humans on any planet and turn them lose. The process of cloning and incubating a human is only 18 years to independence. Well within the life expectancy of a machine with no ability to replace its own parts.
The most logical conclusion ASI can reach is: kill all humans on earth, preserve DNA for potential later use cases where cellular repair and biological reproduction may be useful (planetary infrastructure).
