One of the many good points that Lanier made was that there is not currently an inevitable, moore&#x27;s-law-like progression that will take modern AI methods towards the &quot;superintelligence&quot; that is meant when AI is discussed as an existential threat.<p>Coupling that with the fact that any AI will be limited by its human-defined interface leaves me pretty unconcerned about AI, even if we ever figure out what truly makes a conscious, intelligent being and determine how to replicate it fully in some other medium.<p>That said, I appreciate Bostrom&#x27;s work as a philosophical rather than practical matter.