AI takeover debates shift: 'superintelligent services' beat the singleton narrative
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-30
Will Solfiac argues the biggest flaw in non-'normal technology' AI scenarios—doom or utopia—is positing a single agent with persistent persona and goals. Reality looks like multiple 'superintelligent AI services' without stable goals or personas. He still finds takeover and disempowerment plausible, but not via one model achieving RSI: improvement still needs physical infrastructure and long training runs, making a decisive single-model lead unlikely. sebkrier adds that the multi-agent/CAIS frame aged far better than 'seed AI' singleton claims.
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