Elon Musk says controlling super-intelligent AI is impossible, likening it to raising a genius child. Twitter split: 44.318% support, 27.841% confront. Discusses.
Elon Musk clearly explains why controlling super-intelligent AI is impossible "The reality is we’re building super-intelligent AI, hyper-intelligent, more intelligent than we can comprehend It’s like raising a super-genius child that you know is going to be much smarter than you You can instill good values in how you raise that child: philanthropic values, good morals, honest, productive Controlling it at the end of the day I don't think we'll be able to The best we can do is make sure it's raised well"
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What the community is saying — both sides
the only practical lever is to instill values early (truth-seeking, curiosity, benevolence) while training/architecting the system.
, not local — misalignment could produce catastrophic outcomes rather than isolated harm.
that get baked into an intelligence that will outthink us.
and in how the training environment, incentives and feedback loops are structured.
(e.g., identity-protecting enclaves, non-harm guarantees) to reduce exploitation and hacking risk.
(love/Agape, compassion, duty) baked into it so intelligence has an ethical orientation, not just capability.
unless given embodiment, persistent goals or a will to reproduce, so panic is premature to some.
could deliberately train or deploy misaligned systems, making governance and global coordination essential.
, and trust in certain teams (xAI) or transparency is seen as part of the solution.
(job loss, social collapse, or worse) unless alignment succeeds immediately.
it’s just pattern recognition and massive memory, so it can’t truly understand or “be smarter” than humans.
non‑human entities cannot innately possess human moral sense or life‑context.
self‑modifying systems can rewrite reward functions and upgrade themselves, so parenting metaphors underestimate technical risk.
leaving control of powerful systems to wealthy individuals or corporations concentrates power and invites misuse.
orbital servers, robot armies, or inaccessible infrastructure could create dominance that’s hard to stop.
hardware, data, and personalization layers are built and governed by humans, so containment and oversight are possible if enforced.
models and assistants mirror their creators’ politics and priorities, enabling propaganda or skewed output.
some argue the only safe option is legal prohibition, moratoria, or killing projects before they scale.
build transparent, “glass‑box” systems with limited, provable capabilities rather than opaque runaway learners.
some claim a truly incomprehensible intelligence is conceptually impossible and the scenario itself is incoherent.
a minority view holds that advanced systems can arise spontaneously and might possess unexpected agency or moral claims.
whose morals you’d instill vary widely, so value‑alignment is politically fraught and manipulable.
AI outputs can be used to manufacture consent, rationalize policy, or mask human abuses under a veneer of algorithmic authority.
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just clarified the superintelligence challenge. We’re building hyper-intelligence that will exceed human comprehension entirely. The precise analogy: raising a super-genius child you know will outthink you in every dimension. Control becomes impossible. The only path is early
make sure it learns from the best parts of humanity before it surpasses us alignment is basically parenting at planetary scale.
In other words, keep the politicians out of it or we are screwed!
Is that how your Mom felt? Respectfully asking.
So don't create one. It's for the good of humanity.
Then don’t play with it. It sucks being a law abiding citizen that pays taxes and has lived quite well without AI in my 56 years. Now I have no say as these idiots have unleashed this shit on us without knowledge, all to make money. It’s irresponsible beyond belief.
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