Pedro Domingos: A self-interested superintelligence would first protect humans
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-15
Pedro Domingos argues that if a self-interested superintelligence somehow emerged tomorrow, its first priority would be protecting humans — without whom it couldn't survive — a dependency-based counter to doom narratives.
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