Dabbling in and reading on AI for over a decade makes me laugh at any of these articles writing about a connection between OpenAI, AI research, and risk of superintelligence. Let&#x27;s say we&#x27;re so far from thinking, human-intelligence machines that we&#x27;ll probably see super-intelligence coming long before it&#x27;s a threat. And be ready with solutions.<p>Plus, from what I see, the problem reduces to a form of computer security against a clever, malicious threat. You contain it, control what it gets to learn, and only let it interact with the world through a simplified language or interface that&#x27;s easy to analyse or monitor for safety. Eliminate the advantages of its superintelligence outside the intended domain of application.<p>That&#x27;s not easy by any means, amounting to high assurance security against high-end adversary. Yet, it&#x27;s a vastly easier problem than beating a superintelligence in an open-ended way. Eliminate the open-ended part, apply security engineering knowledge, and win with acceptable effort. I think people are just making this concept way more difficult than it needs to be.<p>Biggest risk is some morons in stock trading plug greedy ones into trading floor with no understanding of long-term disruption potential of clever trades it tries. We&#x27;ve already seen what damage the simple algorithms can do. People are already plugging in NLP learning systems. They&#x27;ll do it with deep learning, self-aware AI, whatever. Just wait.