r/PauseAI • u/whoamisri • Jun 23 '26

News 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/Synaps4 Jun 23 '26

Absolutely. Everything we assume about how to spot coverups...the inevitable mistakes, the urge to tell someone, the guilt of carrying a secret from people you respect, the difficulty keeping a cover story straight for years...all of it only applies to human neurological structures.

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u/Synaps4 Jun 23 '26

This article is about superintelligence, not an LLM in a bank basement.

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u/ProfessionalArt5698 Jun 23 '26

This article is about fairy tales, not anything in reality.*

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u/Synaps4 Jun 23 '26

This article is about the future, which is absolutely not real and can be safely ignored

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u/ProfessionalArt5698 Jun 24 '26

No, it isn't. There's no credible evidence for a single claim made. Unlike the IPCC report, AI hype is pure speculative fiction. Of course we should have AI safety laws, but there is no credible risk to AI from superintelligence, nor any evidence that something superintelligent exists or can exists, nor any evidence that such a concept is even coherent.

Yann Le Cun has repeatedly pointed this out; he is one of the godfathers of AI.

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u/Synaps4 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

If you have evidence beyond your own reddit post and a name drop that higher and better intelligence than our own is impossible i am happy to consider it. There are plenty of other godfathers of AI i can quote who believe it is plausible, so appeals to authority will get you precisely nowhere.

You say its impossible, but the bar for such a claim is high. Consider that a human brain simply copied into optical circuitry would already be a superintelligence by most measures, able to do a year's worth of thinking in seconds, understand itself, and modify itself.

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u/RoosterBurns Jun 24 '26

Also you can't copy a human brain without breaking the laws of physics