We examine arguments that have been put forward that that a sufficiently advanced supervised learning algorithm, trained to imitate humans, present an extinction risk to humanity, and explain why we think they go wrong. These arguments originate from Yudkowsky [2008] (the Attention Director Argument), Christiano [2016] (the Cartesian Demon Argument), Krueger [2019] (the Simplicity of Optimality Argument), Branwen [2022] (the Character Destiny Argument), Yudkowsky [2023] (the Rational Subroutine Argument), and Hubinger et al. [2019] (the Deceptive Alignment Argument).