A ragtag group of public figures has united under one message: the big tech world should not rush towards AI superintelligence.
Superintelligence (also known as AGI) is a hypothetical AI system that could outperform human intelligence on virtually all scales. It is the holy grail of the AI industry, and big tech companies have spent countless money and resources to be the first to achieve it. Meta , for example, has a whole division and a multibillion-dollar spending spree dedicated to this goal. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims superintelligence is “ in sight ,” but other experts are more skeptical of the timeline or even the potential for the technology to ever reach that level of sophistication.
But even those who think superintelligence is achievable don’t agree with the way AI i