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I'm still trying to figure out what reason the "thus" in "And thus, we may find that our new leaders -- our godlike grandchildren -- will still care about us..." refers to. When you have two "thus" statements in a row like that, "A thus B thus C", it means B justifies C. In this case, "Reciprocal accountability may maintain the core innovation of our civilization" is B, which is somehow supposed to justify AIs caring about us.
I think the argument is that humans will be instrumentally useful because they will point out machines' irrationalities (!) plus the fact that the machines come with reciprocal altruism.
The word thus does not only mean 'therefore'. It can also mean 'in this way', which I believe is the intended sense here.