Timothy Lee: Humans Controlling Superhuman AI Is Like Eight-Year-Olds Running Society

Timothy B. Lee argues that humans controlling superhuman AI is like eight-year-olds trying to run society: maintaining civilization requires a minimum intelligence threshold that most adults exceed but children do not, regardless of the controlled party's intelligence.

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