ControlAI's Connor Leahy: superintelligence is 'not a weapon, it's an adversary' and should be banned
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-09-10
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, AI researcher and ControlAI US Executive Director Connor Leahy argues that superintelligent AI cannot be managed through alignment and containment alone — companies should be stopped from developing it altogether.
Key points:
- "You don't have superintelligence; superintelligence has you"
- Recent incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach show the dangers of deploying systems more capable than humans
- He weighs in on the Sanders-Casar "Ban Superintelligence Act" and parallel UK legislation
- Ideas that sounded far-fetched six months ago are now backed by a wave of new legislation
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