Schmidhuber: 'At Some Point Soon, Humans Cannot Be in Charge Any Longer'
haider1 · x · 2026-10-10
Computer scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber says there's no way of controlling AI development: 'at some point in the not-so-distant future, humans cannot be in charge any longer.' He adds that super-smart AIs' main competitors will be other super-smart AIs, not humans.
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