AI Could be Heading Towards the Trough of Disillusionment

Is AI really heading towards super intelligence? Or the trough of disillusionment?

I wrote a guest post on Michael Spencer’s publication AI Supremacy earlier in June, titled “The Rise of the AGI Profiteers”. 

I criticize, in no uncertain terms, how the young man and OpenAI refugee, Leopold Aschenbrenner, in a 165-page manifesto and a 4.5 hours conversation on Dwarkesh Patel’s popular podcast, warns the public against the imminent threa…