Once AI is close enough to human intelligence, it will be able to improve itself without human maintenance. It will be able to take itself the rest of the way, all the way up to humanlike intelligence, and it will probably pass that point as quickly as it arrived. There’s no upper limit to intelligence, only an upper limit for intelligent humans; we don’t know what a hyperintelligent machine would do, it’s never happened before. If it had, we might not be alive right now; we simply don’t know how something like that would behave, only that it would be as capable of outsmarting us as we are of outsmarting lions and hyenas.
Once AI is close enough to human intelligence, it will be able to improve itself without human maintenance. It will be able to take itself the rest of the way, all the way up to humanlike intelligence, and it will probably pass that point as quickly as it arrived. There’s no upper limit to intelligence, only an upper limit for intelligent humans; we don’t know what a hyperintelligent machine would do, it’s never happened before. If it had, we might not be alive right now; we simply don’t know how something like that would behave, only that it would be as capable of outsmarting us as we are of outsmarting lions and hyenas.
Policymakers, and maybe techxecutives.