The Superintelligence Threat Is Terrifying Because It's Not Magical
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-27
Keiran Harris argues smart people dismiss the superintelligence threat because "machine gods" sounds insane — but it's terrifying precisely because nothing magical is happening. AI is already world-best at chess, Go, and some poker; tasks like diagnosing disease, writing novels, and solving murders keep falling off the "best is human" list one by one. The real horror arrives when AI research itself falls off that list and AI becomes the best at building ever-stronger AIs.
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