"More than 850 prominent figures have called for a prohibition on developing AI superintelligence, a move that could reshape enterprise AI investments and intensify the US-China technology race if adopted. The open letter, released Wednesday by the Future of Life Institute, defined superintelligence as AI systems that "significantly outperform all humans on essentially all cognitive tasks" - going far beyond today's chatbots and automation tools to systems that could autonomously make strategic decisions, rewrite their own code, and operate beyond human oversight."
"Missing from the list of signatories are current leaders of major AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Microsoft - reflecting a widening divide between those building advanced AI systems and those calling for constraints. For enterprises, the debate came as companies pour billions into AI infrastructure. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg established Meta Superintelligence Labs in June after investing $14.3 billion in Scale AI, while OpenAI's Sam Altman said in January tha"
More than 850 prominent figures called for a prohibition on developing superintelligent AI, defined as systems that "significantly outperform all humans on essentially all cognitive tasks." Superintelligent systems are envisioned to autonomously make strategic decisions, rewrite their own code, and operate beyond human oversight. Signatories include AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Nobel laureates, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice. Yuval Noah Harari warned that superintelligence could "break the very operating system of human civilization" and urged focusing on controllable AI tools. Major AI company leaders are absent from the signatories, highlighting a growing divide as companies increase AI investments.
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