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ASI is controllable, but we don't NEED full ASI anyway. Just very close to it.

11/12/2026

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By Bruce R. Long

AI will stay under human control. There will be problems, but ASI is not uncontrollable.

In any case, this idea confuses and confounds the debate and confuses people's understanding.

Here is what's important:

We don't need full ASI to achieve outcomes like the curing of all chronic diseases. That only requires very powerful AI which is not full ASI and which is far more controllable.

One must ask WHY certain people don't want the cures for childhood leukemia and cancer.

Why don't they want i?

Are they Nazis? Are they religious nutters whose cults have them completely brainwashed whose cults require human beings to suffer?

Superr powerful ASI humanoid robot taking directives on science and progress from a council of polite human beings.

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