MI5 chief warns on superintelligent AI: history offers no precedent for a smarter actor
notkilleveryoneist · reddit · 2026-10-14
The Director General of MI5 publicly addressed the danger of superintelligent AI: "Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are, is capable of out-thinking us." A rare direct statement on AGI-level risk from the head of a major intelligence agency, circulating via a video clip on Reddit.
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