Elon Musk put the probability that Artificial Superintelligence will end humanity at 20%. Superintelligence promises to change everything from politics, to health, from consciousness to what it means to be human. Narain Batra here argues that Artificial Superintelligence is now inevitable. We must learn to harness it, before it’s too late.

Every society has a set of core values which give it a unique form and shape, a distinctive character. For example, the First Amendment has given American society the character of openness – an environment of randomness, a large zone for error making and creative fearlessness, possibilities for chance discoveries – all of which has turned America into a nation of tinkerers and innovators. In this open dynamic system, a system in a constant state of equilibrium-disequilibrium, turbulence-harmony, there’s no endgame or finality. Out of this open dynamic system arose the Internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and now generative AI, said to be the most transformative technology that would eventually lead to the development of artificial general intelligence, or AGI – a form of superintelligence surpassing human intelligence, simultaneously feeding widespread exuberance and catastrophic fears that it might lead to the end of humanity.

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The rise of AGI, singularity, or superintelligence is inevitable

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