Governance of Superintelligence
Nothing makes me think of Altman as a grifter more than his trying to spook uneducated lawmakers with sci-fi notions like &quot;superintelligence&quot; for which there are no plausible mechanisms or natural analogues, and for which the solution is to lobby government build a moat around his business and limit his competitors. We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of &quot;intelligence&quot;, let alone any evidence that it is a linear or unbounded phenomenon, and even if it were, there is no evidence ChatGPT is a route to even human-level intelligence. The sum total of research into this &quot;field&quot; is a series of long chains of philosophical leaps that rapidly escape any connection to reality, which is no basis for a wide-ranging government intervention.