That is not what we&#x27;re doing. We have no idea what AI is, we have no idea about the relationship our current research has to real AI (because machine learning is not even within sight from true AI), and so we&#x27;re not even sure that anything we&#x27;re doing can be classified as &quot;AI research&quot; that we can slow down. How can we research the safety of something we know nothing about?<p>Currently, much of the discussion on the subject is done in various fringe forums, where they imagine AI to be a god and then discuss the safety of creating a god. You can even find reasoning that goes like this: &quot;we don&#x27;t know how capable AI can be, but it <i>could</i> be a god with a non-zero probability, and the danger has a negative-infinity utility, so you have a negative-infinity expected value, which means it must be stopped now&quot;. Now, this sounds like a joke to us (we know that every argument with the words &quot;non-zero probability&quot; and infinite utility can conclude just about anything), but the truth is that such foolishness is not far from the best we can do given how little we know of the subject.