[ExI] NO to the "Statement on Superintelligence"

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On 26/10/2025 14:40, Giulio Prisco wrote:
> > My latest @Mindplex_AI article. I strongly criticize the "Statement on
> > Superintelligence" recently issued by the Future of Life Institute. I
> > think their proposed ban on artificial superintelligence (ASI)
> > research is misguided and potentially dangerous.
> > https://magazine.mindplex.ai/post/the-misguided-crusade-against-superintelligence
>
> I agree with everything there, except the last part: "controlled by bad
> humans".
>

Right. I should have said "developed and initially controlled by bad humans."

> If it was controllable by humans, it wouldn't be superintelligence.
>
> I think it's more likely that if we heed the Future of Life Institute
> statement, it will make little difference. Whether superintelligent AI
> is developed by 'good' or 'bad' humans, it will inevitably make its own
> decisions. The dangerous part that we can actually influence is
> pre-superintelligent advanced AI, where humans might reasonably expect
> AIs to do what they want them to. Briefly. This, I think, is a good
> argument for developing it as quickly as possible, to stay ahead of
> other players who will attempt to enforce their values on everyone else.
>
> Perhaps the best rebuttal to the FLI statement would be: "Do you really
> want to live under Communist Chinese rule?" (even if this is likely to
> be only for a brief time).
>

My reply to Max Tegmark's X post on the statement was:
非常感謝！ ！ ！
which should mean "Thank you very much !!!" in Chinese.
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> Ben
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