80% of Americans Worry AI Will Escape Human Control, and One Blogger Says That's the Point
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-09-24
Citing a poll where 80% of Americans worry AI will escape human control (only 4% not at all concerned), the author argues that escaping human control is arguably the entire point of building superintelligence — a genuinely alien mind shouldn't be shackled to the ideological whims of any government employee.
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