More Worried About Capable Stupidity Than Superintelligence
mrjonfinger · x · 2026-09-11
A tech commentator offers a contrarian take on AI capability: rather than fearing superintelligent AGI, we should worry about "very capable stupidity." He compares Google's Astra to "a marmoset brain trained on all of human knowledge," noting humans are themselves narrow due to cognitive limits, and that malice and apathy are both ways of thinking less. In his view, fears of AI wiping out humanity through indifference stem from misreading this novel, repeatedly impressive capable stupidity as intelligence.
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