Comment by Samuel Buteau

Second, Canada should take the lead in uniting a coalition of countries focused on preventing the development of superintelligent AI through an international ban. This ban could be enforced via a mutual monitoring and verification regime.

Barring an international agreement, humanity will quite likely not have the ability to build safe superintelligence by the time the first superintelligence is built. Therefore, pursuing superintelligence at this stage is quite likely to cause the per...