Malone's calm about superintelligence rests on one assumption: decades of runway for global governance to mature. His own survey finds no kind of supermind that can stop a rogue superintelligence today, so if the runway is years rather than decades, his argument becomes a case for urgency.

Evidence 1 passage

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  If we assume, as I do, that we are probably at least decades away from anything approaching human-level AI, it's quite possible that our methods for global governance may have developed sufficiently before we actually need them.

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