Even if superintelligence is real, not everyone dies

This was originally part of my Take the antidote series where I look at AI news stories to dispel AI hype. It’s since grown into something else entirely, but I will be referencing the third article in that series, AI agents are not going rogue, throughout this post. This is my longest article at over 15,000 words, so I won’t be offended if you skip to the TL;DR or scroll to skim the post. You can also subscribe to The Last Enclosure podcast for our ongoing superintelligence series where we’ll discuss these ideas. More podcast apps Where does the idea of superintelligence come from?I spent half my life in Berkeley and knew people who talked about superintelligence regularly. I’ve watched with some combination of bemusement and horror as this topic has gone from a niche subcultural interest to a central pillar of the global economy. In September, Bernie Sanders proposed a bill that threatened developers building superintelligence with two decades of jail time.[1]1 Trump renamed…

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