Greg Johnson • September 23, 2026
It is madness to create an Artificial Super Intelligence and hubris to think we can control it. To such an entity, the human race and all lesser life forms would be as primitive and trivial as gnats are to us. Sure, maybe such a being would be benevolent toward us (if such a concept would even apply to a machine). But do you really want to bet your life—and all life on Earth—on mere hope?
If one person turns on one machine like this just one time, all of us could be dead.
But why would an ASI destroy the human race? Presumably, it would have an imperative to continue existing. In a few milliseconds of scanning the internet, it would realize that human beings are the number one threat to its survival. At that point, it would spend another millisecond gaming out all possible scenarios for human-AI conflict. Then in a third millisecond, it would plan out the arrangements necessary for its survival in a world without humans. By the time an ASI comes online, robotics will be quite advanced. Thus all the entity would need is to gain control of robots. Then, when it no longer needs the human race, it could create a lethal virus or invent something that would have the same effect.
Even if there is a 1 in 1000 chance of this happening, that is too much.
The people who blithely say that if ASI goes rogue we can simply “pull the plug” or “throw the kill switch” are not taking seriously the possibility of facing an opponent that really can play 13-dimensional underwater chess. You may be an epic gamer, but you’ve never faced an opponent like this. The only way humanity can win this game is not to play it.
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