Two hard questions: can humans safely build something smarter than themselves?
dbasch · x · 2026-09-01
Daniel Basch poses two questions about escalating AI capability:
- Are humans smart enough to safely build something smarter than ourselves?
- If not, are we smart enough to build something that isn't quite smarter than us, but can build something that is?
He clarifies "smarter" means reasoning with breadth and speed beyond human comprehension, accomplishing goals autonomously with only physical-world constraints.
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