AI researcher on petition to ban superintelligence: 'We can't stop them from doing anything'

The concern is if you create entities that are more powerful than human beings and you have no idea how to maintain power over them, uh then you're just asking for trouble. I think pretty much every American understands that. Uh and the polls are extremely lopsided uh against proceeding with super intelligence. Um, when we look at this from a technical point of view, the basic problem is not only are we trying to build these systems that are more powerful than us, um, but we actually have no idea how the sy ...