I think this fear is based on a huge overestimation of the marginal utility of raw intelligence in the political/power field. When there’s a coup somewhere it’s usually not the math department that rolls triumphantly through town. Oppenheimer was a superintelligence compared to his rivals in the military industrial complex, and we know how that turned out. I could go on, but you get the point.
I think what we should be more worried about is the power dynamics/balance between groups of people in society. The relatively morally bankrupt “power people” within the military still needed the cooperation of people like Oppenheimer to get their hands on the bomb. That constraint could soon be gone...
I think what we should be more worried about is the power dynamics/balance between groups of people in society. The relatively morally bankrupt “power people” within the military still needed the cooperation of people like Oppenheimer to get their hands on the bomb. That constraint could soon be gone...