Last week, a coalition of scientific, religious, and political leaders called for a global prohibition on developing superintelligence: AI that outperforms humans across all cognitive tasks. I was one of the early signatories, alongside Nobel laureates like Geoffrey Hinton; the world’s-most cited AI scientist Yoshua Bengio; former advisor to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon; former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen; and Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

What’s bringing this unprecedented coalition together? The urgent, extinction-level threat posed by superintelligence . Tech companies are pouring billions of dollars into privately reaching superintelligence as fast as possible. No one knows how to control AIs that are vastly more competent than any human, ye

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