Political economy of superhuman AI

09/25/2022

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by   Mehmet S. Ismail, et al.

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In this note, I study the institutions and game theoretic assumptions that would prevent the emergence of "superhuman-level" arfiticial general intelligence, denoted by AI*. These assumptions are (i) the "Freedom of the Mind," (ii) open source "access" to AI*, and (iii) rationality of the representative human agent, who competes against AI*. I prove that under these three assumptions it is impossible that an AI* exists. This result gives rise to two immediate recommendations for public policy. First, "cloning" digitally the human brain should be strictly regulated, and hypothetical AI*'s access to brain should be prohibited. Second, AI* research should be made widely, if not publicly, accessible.