This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins)
Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. - Cal Newport
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Personal Superintelligence
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Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence
Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges.
Superintelligence is a dragon
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Daron Acemoglu on Twitter / X
First question on AI.Is the problem superintelligence or distorted intelligence?This is a question I tried to address in this piece. I can add the following additional comment here.I believe the debate is being obfuscated by equating goal-driven, autonomous behavior with… https://t.co/pgoZ6tMaQ7— Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) September 29, 2026
The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
AI as Social Technology
Our debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science fiction. Back then, Vinge (1993) wrote essays and novels urging us to face up to the oncoming “Singularity”: a moment of rapid change that would fundamentally transform the human condition. On that day, AI would rapidly evolve from merely human-level intelligence, what some now call ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI), into something super-intelligent with its own interests and goals. Humanity would then either be casually eliminated by out-of-control machines, or humans would become as gods, with super-human servitors at our command.
Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
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Building Political Superintelligence
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