{"id":198703,"date":"2024-11-02T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/what-is-ai-superintelligence-could-it-destroy-humanity-and-is-it-really-almost-here"},"modified":"2024-11-02T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:22:23","slug":"what-is-ai-superintelligence-could-it-destroy-humanity-and-is-it-really-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/what-is-ai-superintelligence-could-it-destroy-humanity-and-is-it-really-almost-here","title":{"rendered":"What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-ai-superintelligence-could-it-destroy-humanity-and-is-it-really-almost-here.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence with the ominous title <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies\">Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies<\/a><\/em>. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems\u2014\u201csuperintelligences\u201d more capable than humans\u2014might one day take over the world and destroy humanity.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, OpenAI boss Sam Altman says superintelligence may only be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ia.samaltman.com\">a few thousand days<\/a>\u201d away. A year ago, Altman\u2019s OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever set up a team within the company to focus on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-superalignment\/\">safe superintelligence<\/a>,\u201d but he and his team have now raised a billion dollars to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/ilya-sutskever-how-ai-will-change-his-new-startup-safe-superintelligence-2024-09-05\/\">a startup of their own<\/a> to pursue this goal.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly are they talking about? Broadly speaking, superintelligence is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0712.3329\">anything more intelligent than humans<\/a>. But unpacking what that might mean in practice can get a bit tricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems\u2014\u201csuperintelligences\u201d more capable than humans\u2014might one day take over the world and destroy humanity. A decade later, OpenAI boss Sam [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}