{"id":81096,"date":"2026-11-09T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/todays-ai-wont-achieve-superintelligence-but-catastrophic-risk-is-real-sunita-verma\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:56:13","slug":"todays-ai-wont-achieve-superintelligence-but-catastrophic-risk-is-real-sunita-verma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/todays-ai-wont-achieve-superintelligence-but-catastrophic-risk-is-real-sunita-verma\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s AI won\u2019t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. But we know how to regulate them<\/p>\n<p>Many Silicon Valley leaders believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/articles\/super-intelligence\">superintelligence<\/a> is an imminent threat to society. The White House even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/09\/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence\/\">published an accord<\/a> about it. This isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, estimates the risk of human extinction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/podcasts\/2026\/09\/what-the-godfather-of-ai-thinks-we-should-do\/688748\/\">is at least 10%<\/a> within the next few decades. The Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, <a href=\"https:\/\/darioamodei.com\/post\/we-must-pace-the-frontier\">argued that<\/a> unchecked AI \u201ccould outrun our ability to understand and control these systems\u201d. In response, 1,300 leaders and employees from many leading AI companies signed <a href=\"http:\/\/pacingthefrontier.com\/\">a letter calling<\/a> to \u201cdeliberately pace\u201d development.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/09\/ai-superintelligence-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. But we know how to regulate them Many Silicon Valley leaders believe superintelligence is an imminent threat to society. The White House even published an accord about it. This isn\u2019t enough. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, estimates the risk of human extinction is &#8230; <a title=\"Today\u2019s AI won\u2019t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/todays-ai-wont-achieve-superintelligence-but-catastrophic-risk-is-real-sunita-verma\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Today\u2019s AI won\u2019t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}