If you look at the last 300 years, it's obvious that life has gotten massively better. Unless you count animals.

If you look at the last 300 years, it's obvious that life has gotten massively better.

Unless you count animals. 

Which you should. 

At which point, the last 300 years has led to the largest genocides and torture camps of unending horror the world has ever known

And remember: we treat animals poorly because they're less intelligent than us and we've had the most limited evolutionary pressures to care about them. 

How do you think an AI that's 1000x smarter than us will treat us if it's not given extremely strong evolutionary pressures to care about us?