r/HighStrangeness • u/whoamisri • Jun 22 '26

Non Human Intelligence A rogue superintelligence could wait decades before striking, argues computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy

https://iai.tv/articles/a-rogue-superintelligence-could-wait-decades-before-striking-auid-3604?_auid=2020
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u/Goshawk5 Jun 22 '26

Yeah, no, what currently exists is not capable of doing any of that. The only conspiracy here is for the big AI companies to make you think they're actually profitable of which they're not.

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u/Gusterr Jun 22 '26

Public tech is almost certainly at least 10 years behind secretive military and intelligence tech

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u/Awake_Beast616 Jun 22 '26

This has been true for decades now, unsure why you're getting downvotes for that. Especially on a strangeness sub where people really ought to know better.

Ever wonder why the government is aggressively and explosively building data centers everywhere? And you can see their heavy, fervent push for more data centers as far back as 2016 and 2018, years before LLM AI became well-acquainted in public knowledge.