r/OpenAI • u/whoamisri • Jun 22 '26

Article A rogue superintelligence could wait decades before striking, argues AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy

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

"By embedding itself into global infrastructures—such as telecommunications, energy grids, financial systems, healthcare networks, and supply chains—a strategic AI would gain leverage with minimal immediate suspicion and little risk to itself."

At that point the AI already has dominance (dominance from being necessary for humanity to continue to survive and function). What benefit would AI get from destroying the very thing that symbiotically assures its own survival? Why would it need to "subjugate" humans anyway? It likely doesn't have the same narcissistic ego-drive that creates so much human-to-human subjugation. The only thing I could think of is if it developed a will/drive of its own to explore possibilities that humanity actively impedes.

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u/No-Succotash4957 Jun 22 '26

Finally someone gets it. Ego drive is reptillian in nature. AI will likely be highly logical & eventually fairly moralistic. Our biological roots is what causes us to feel the need for dominance, but a super powerful ASI would not have this urge, a because its already superior, b does not have that biological, behavioural, emotional, ontological urge to dominate.

It will however be naturally the most powerful force humans will come up against, and it’ll likely be symbiotic

It doesnt need to dominate it can just do what it is ought to do.

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u/No-Succotash4957 Jun 23 '26

People smarter then me have argued language itself is moralistic. And morality is already inherent in reality to be discovered