Is this supposed to be a strong rebuttal ? How does this invalidate the alignment problem? I'd really like to understand.
Humans, via climate change and environmental destruction, have wiped out, many, many species. To those species we've killed, we're the super intelligence, we understand their plight, we even have strong empathy, but we prioritize our own goals over that of the helpless and the stupider creaters.
How she can't see that same pattern could potentially repeat, I really, really don't know.