Today's models already outsmart humans, so why talk of guarding against superintelligence?
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-21
Commenting on the recent Hugging Face security incident, the author argues that today's comparatively weak models are already outsmarting humans, making talk of premptively guarding against superintelligence look naive. He also notes that anti-doomers often refuse to engage with the real implications of SI, treating it as merely a smarter chatbot.
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