> You really think this worries Sam Altman? Yes. "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existe

> You really think this worries Sam Altman? Yes. "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation period and a high mortality rate) but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the way that SMI could." - Sam Altman He's had more recent statements along these lines. But personally, I believe his fault is that he thinks careening towards this is inevitable and he's hoping the best thing to do given the wildly diverging outcomes likely is just to hope the emerging intelligence will come up with the alignment. On Hinton: "I actually think the risk is more than 50%, of the existential threat." https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1dslspe/geoffrey_hinton_says_there_is_more_than_a_50/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1dslspe/geoffr...