David Patterson pushes back on ASI power fears: humans have no reason to cede control
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-27
- Turing Award winner David Patterson argues that AI must be given direction by a human, and that humans will be held legally liable for whatever they prompt an AI to do.
- His point: even a superintelligent ASI isn't omnipotent, and humans have no reason to give up power to it.
- His interlocutor counters that power goes to those willing and able to take it — and ASI is by definition more able — so betting humanity's survival on ASI lacking a "will to power" is a gamble where a single person empowering it could be catastrophic.
- A representative exchange in the ongoing debate over ASI risk and human control.
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