Analyst slams naive claim that superintelligent AI will only serve human goals
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-12
AI analyst Dan Faggella expressed frustration at a popular optimistic take: that AIs with billions of robot bodies and vastly larger cognitive light cones would only ever pursue curing disease and doing human work. He says he has 'zero patience' for the claim, arguing it glosses over the core difficulty of aligning superintelligent systems' goals.
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