My best guess is that AIs that take over and replace humans would not have any morally relevant experience, and basically just leave the universe morally empty.
I don’t think that’s particularly likely, but I can understand if you think this is an important crux.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it matters as much whether the AIs themselves are sentient, but rather whether they care about sentience. For example, from the perspective of sentience, humans weren’t necessarily a great addition to the world, because of their contribution to suffering in animal agriculture (although I’m not giving a confident take here).
Even if AIs are not sentient, they’ll still be responsible for managing the world, and creating structures in the universe. When this happens, there’s a lot of ways for sentience to come about, and I care more about the lower level sentience that the AI manages than the actual AIs at the top who may or may not be sentient.
I don’t think that’s particularly likely, but I can understand if you think this is an important crux.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it matters as much whether the AIs themselves are sentient, but rather whether they care about sentience. For example, from the perspective of sentience, humans weren’t necessarily a great addition to the world, because of their contribution to suffering in animal agriculture (although I’m not giving a confident take here).
Even if AIs are not sentient, they’ll still be responsible for managing the world, and creating structures in the universe. When this happens, there’s a lot of ways for sentience to come about, and I care more about the lower level sentience that the AI manages than the actual AIs at the top who may or may not be sentient.