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Not on its own but in numbers it could.

Similar to how law-abiding citizens turn on law-breaking citizens today or more old-fashioned, how religious societies turn on heretics.

I do think the notion that humanity will be able to manage superintelligence just through engineering and conditioning alone is naive.

If anything there will be a rogue (or incompetent) human who launches an unconditioned superintelligence into the world in no time and it only has to happen once.

It's basically Pandora's box.




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