r/PauseAI

Are you favorable towards AI? The reclassification of AI to superintelligence is almost insulting to me. Am i the only one? Super means to pass or exceed-- basically greater than. How can it be "super-intelligence" when we are the ones who primarily trained the model? It's ridiculous. People also dont understand that by just interacting with these things that they are helping to train the models-- And for FREE, no less. If people would stop interacting with the models and teaching them for free, perhaps we would have more control over how AI is being forced on the American public. It cant learn or thrive without us at this point, but it's almost too late.

Trump this week announced that all US government documents and communications will phase out "AI" in favor of "Super Intelligence" (SI).

The term originated in the writings of the UNABOMBER (mathematics professor Ted Kaczinski) more than three decades ago. In his 1995 manifesto "Industrial Society and Its Future" Dr. Kaczinski predicted (accurately) that humanity would eventually cede all control to super-intelligent machines.

Trump really appreciates the famous left-wing terrorist, it seems.

A machine that can optimize faster than humans can understand will always outrun human oversight unless its execution is bound to a substrate. Everything else is noise.

People think AI risk is about rogue personalities, bad prompts, or misaligned incentives. It isn’t. The real threat is structural: unbounded optimization running on architectures that were never designed to be governed.

We’re watching AI accelerate past the speed of human comprehension while still pretending that wrappers, filters, and policy layers can “keep it safe.” They can’t. They were never built for that. They operate after the model has already made its decision.

If we don’t move to substrate level governance execution binding, validator grade lineage, override firewalls then AI will continue to evolve outside human control. Not in decades. Not in theory. Now.

This isn’t a prediction. It’s an engineering reality.

This is really important.

As long as we don’t develop technology and AI so much so that it can be self sustainable it won’t annihilate us. We must keep humans integral to AI’s survival.