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The electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuke would pop resisters too. AI would more likely use biological means to get rid of us.
Like heating the planet another degree and starving us out of existence by killing off biodiversity until the crops die out... Like they're doing now?
(I say "Us" when I just really mean the 99% of people that haven't got self sufficient underground complexes)
Assuming AI would care about itself and not just "solving the problem".
Yeah, these doom scenarios require cascading assumptions and no real answer, except maybe "don't".