A new investigation reveals why the architects of AI want to stop it, and why we should listen!
Geoffrey Hinton. Yoshua Bengio. Stuart Russell. Three Turing Award laureates who built modern AI just signed something extraordinary: a statement calling for prohibition on superintelligence development.
Not regulation. Not a pause. Prohibition.
They’re joined by current employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, people actively building these systems, alongside policy figures from Steve Bannon to Susan Rice. The most politically diverse coalition imaginable, united by a single realization.
What do they know that the rest of us don’t?
Over the past year, I’ve investigated three operational AI deployments causing documented harm at industrial scale: linguistic homogenization affecting language uesed daily be content consumers, fraud ecosystems generating $15 million monthly through fake animal rescue videos, hyper-reality distortions requiring Vatican debunking resources, the list is endless, some of these reports are avialable at WattyAlan reports now.
The pattern is clear: we’re already losing control of systems far less capable than what’s being built right now.
But here’s what shook me: the mathematics suggest we might be approaching an asymptote, a line these systems can approach infinitely closely but never cross. Like teaching a piano by showing someone millions of performances but never letting them touch the keys. Perfect mimicry. Zero understanding.
Which means the danger isn’t superintelligence arriving. It’s that we keep scaling systems we fundamentally cannot control, whether they reach “super” intelligence or not.
This week, I’m releasing my full investigation: a shorter accessible report and a large academic analysis. Both reach the same conclusion: the control problem isn’t theoretical anymore. It’s operational. Right now.
The superintelligence statement needs a tsunami of signatures.
The link is here:
https://superintelligence-statement.org
sign up and restack and share this message everywhere.
This is the line in the sand. Time to choose which side you’re on.
Adam White, Wattyalan Reports
www.wattyalanreports.com
How to spot a robot?
Does substack have a are you a wobbot catcha?
Or a human detector?
Nope.
Thus anyone could be a wobbot?
And how would one see the dif between a wobbot and a privacy aware human?
The Dutch have a massive AI driven 'Toeslagen Affaire' thousands of people got screwed by the govnerment. Childeren were displaced, some even disappeared. And eventhough this happened years ago, things were never solved. Worse, they now find more, that could be even worse, and probably is.