> But very soon they're going to be, they may very well be more intelligent than us and far more intelligent than us. And at that point, we will be receding int

> But very soon they're going to be, they may very well be more intelligent than us and far more intelligent than us. And at that point, we will be receding into the background in some sense. We will have handed the baton over to our successors, for better or for worse. Hinton also said, it's like we are a passing phase in evolution, where we created these immortal beings. Being that we are so bad at predicting the future, and taking precautionary measures. See pandemic. Even all the alarm bells sounding, we won't be able to do anything concrete here. It's like we are mostly a reactive species, we don't have terribly good incentives to act in foresight.