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Slight sidetrack: By the time AI seems plausible, I think it's likely that the human race will have done enough self-modification (computer augmentation, biological engineering) that the question of what's human is going to be more difficult than it is now.
By 'human', do you mean 'member of the species Homo sapiens' or something else?
I was thinking "member of the species Homo sapiens", but now that you mention it, I'd assign a small probability to genetically modified humans which can't interbreed with other humans. I don't have anything specific in mind, it's just that if genetic modification becomes at all common, a lot of possibilities open up, and some of the good ones might be incompatible with mutual fertility....whatever that means under the circumstances.