Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
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The article covers a TechCrunch Equity podcast episode about the potential dangers of superintelligent AI. Host Rebecca Bellan interviews Connor Leahy, an AI researcher and U.S. Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI. Leahy argues that recent incidents, such as OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, show the risks of deploying AI systems more capable than humans. He believes these risks are too great to manage through alignment and containment alone. ControlAI is pushing for a radical approach: preventing companies from developing superintelligence altogether. Leahy notes that this idea, once considered far-fetched, is now gaining support from new legislation.
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