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I don't understand why you think "preserve history, run historical simulations, and study AI's origins" implies that the AI will preserve actual living humans for any significant amount of time. One generation (practically the blink of an eye compared to plausible AI lifetimes) seems like it would produce more than enough data.
Given enough computation the best way to generate accurate generative probabilistic models is to run lots of detailed Monte Carlo simulations. AIXI like models do this, human brains do it to a limited extent.
What does that have to do with whether an AI will need living human beings? It seems like there is an unstated premise that living humans are equivalent to simulated humans. That's a defensible position, but implicitly asserting the position is not equivalent to defending it.
The AI will need to simulate its history as a natural necessary component of its 'thinking'. For a powerful enough AI, this will entail simulation down to the level of say the Matrix, where individual computers and human minds are simulated at their natural computational scale level.
Yes. I'm assuming most people here are sufficiently familiar with this position such that it doesn't require my defense in a comment like this.