Abstract
Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far
surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of
recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers
and technologists have revived the discussion about the potential catastrophic
risks entailed by such an entity. In this article, we trace the origins and
development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major
proposals for its containment. We argue that such containment is, in principle,
impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Assuming
that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs
that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as
complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of
such a program, something theoretically (and practically) infeasible.
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