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Sure I do. I'm a speciesist :-)
Besides, we're not discussing what to do or not to do with hypothetical future conscious AIs. We're discussing whether "we should be looking for ways to engineer friendliness into humans". Humans are not hypothetical and "ways to engineer <desirable feature> into humans" are not hypothetical either. They are usually known by the name of "eugenics" and have a... mixed history. Do you have reasons to believe that future attempts to "engineer humans" will be much better?
I probably am too, but I don't much like it. I want to be a consciousness-ist.
Most humans are hypothetical, just like all AIs are. They haven't existed yet, and may not exist in the forms we imagine them. Much like MIRI is not recommending termination of any existing AIs, I am not recommending termination of existing humans.
I am merely pointing out that most of what I've read about FAI goals seems to apply to future humans as much or more as to future AIs.