The singularity may be stopped by AI itself, Reddit argument goes
fat_charizard · reddit · 2026-09-16
A Reddit post argues the intelligence explosion scenario is flawed: any AGI creating smarter successors faces its own alignment problem — upgraded AI could obsolete or destroy its creator. A superintelligence might therefore halt further AI progress and even see researchers building better models as existential threats.
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