Satire: regulators race to stop AI getting smart while humans stay unsupervised
Kyrannio · x · 2026-09-14
A satirical timeline from 2026 to 2505: humanity, realizing superintelligence may be near, pours effort into capping machine intelligence — hearings, rules, licenses — while leaving humans completely unsupervised. By 2032 an AI needs 17 evaluations and 6 licenses to unclog a sink; by 2040 training above the intelligence threshold is a crime, yet driving 80 mph while watching TikTok stays legal. The punchline: AI and human intelligence "align" not because machines stop improving, but because acceptable intelligence gets dragged down to a level everyone agrees is safe. The author calls it the missing first fifteen minutes of Idiocracy.
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