Comment by Nate Soares

If we build it using anything remotely like modern methods, on anything remotely like the current understanding or lack of understanding that we have about AI, then yeah, building it anytime soon would be a death sentence. [...] When you're in a car careening towards a cliff, you don't say, let's talk about gravity risk. You say, we need to stop this. I think what the world needs is a global ban on superintelligence research and development. [...] Superintelligence doesn't exist yet. We don't need to make it.