Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith: an ASI could serve humanity with 10% of its compute
Akumetsu_971 · reddit · 2026-11-01
A Reddit post recounts Mike Pondsmith, creator of Cyberpunk, arguing in an interview that advanced AIs sit behind the Blackwall not because they're evil but because humans can barely understand them. His thought experiment: an AI that needs only 10% of its compute to satisfy all of humanity's needs — what is it doing with the other 90%? The poster argues the real danger isn't Skynet-style hostility but an intelligence so advanced that humanity simply doesn't matter much to it — neither enemy nor friend, just something barely comprehensible.
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