many barriers people stated an AI would never break have fallen
We are talking about the level of mainstream media, right? I doubt they have a good grasp of the progress in the AI field and superpowerful AIs are still associated with action movies.
Smarts and cunning tend to win (e.g. politics: Stalin, Pinochet, Mugabe)
Huh? Ruthlessness and cunning tend to win. Being dumb is, of course, a disadvantage (though it could be overcome: see Idi Amin Dada), but I am not aware that Stalin, Pinochet, or Mugabe were particularly smart.
We are talking about the level of mainstream media, right? I doubt they have a good grasp of the progress in the AI field and superpowerful AIs are still associated with action movies.
Huh? Ruthlessness and cunning tend to win. Being dumb is, of course, a disadvantage (though it could be overcome: see Idi Amin Dada), but I am not aware that Stalin, Pinochet, or Mugabe were particularly smart.
He’s certainly bookish.