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"Note that AI is certainly not a great filter: an AI would likely expand through the universe itself"
I was confused by this, what is it supposed to mean? Off the top of my head it certainly seems like there is sufficient space between 'make and AI that causes the extinction of the human races or otherwise makes expanding into space difficult' and 'make an AI that causes the extinction of the human race but which goes on to colonize the universe' for AI to be a great filter.
It rests on the hypothesis that the AI is not only dangerously intelligent but able to self-improve to levels where it can more-or-less direct an entire civilization's worth of material infrastructure towards its own goals. At that point, it would have an easy time getting a space program going, mining resources from the rest of its solar system, and eventually, achieving interstellar existence (via the sheer patience to cross interstellar distances at sublight speeds).