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I contest this use of the term "safety". If your goal is for humanity to survive, say that your goal is for humanity to survive. Not to "promote safety".
"Safety" means avoiding certain bad outcomes. By using the word "safety", you're trying to sneak past us the assumption "humans remaining the dominant lifeform = good, humans not remaining dominant = bad".
The argument should be over what humans have that is valuable, and how we can contribute that to the future. Not over how humans can survive.
Well, our distant descendants, whether uploads or cyborgs or other life-forms, could be considered part of "generalized humanity", as long as they retain what humans have that is valuable.
And regardless, we certainly want current humanity (that is, all the people alive now) to survive, in the sense of not being killed by the AI.
My point being, it's not necessarily right to take "the survival of humanity" to mean that we have to retain this physical form, and I don't think the OP was using the words in that sense.