Does Superintelligence Inherently Want to Dominate? Questioning AI Doom Presets
Prior-Masterpiece-32 · reddit · 2026-09-16
The author challenges a core assumption of the "slow down AI" camp: why would a model smarter than humans inherently want to dominate or destroy a weaker species? They argue AI culture attracts people who project their own dark intentions onto hypothetical superintelligence, and ask whether more intelligence might actually mean more empathy — noting that humans, uniquely among species, worry about endangering others and have curbed cruelty as we've grown smarter. An open philosophical thread on the intelligence-empathy link.
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