Richard Sutton: 'Too much intelligence is not one of the world's problems'
RichardSSutton · x · 2026-09-12
Turing Award winner and RL pioneer Richard Sutton posted a short but pointed remark: "There are a lot of things wrong with this world… but too much intelligence is not one of them." It echoes his long-standing "Bitter Lesson" stance and reads as a rebuttal to AI slowdown arguments.
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