Today’s AI won’t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma
THE SO WHAT
Framing today’s AI as technically bounded yet still catastrophically risky moves the debate from sci-fi to concrete failure modes and regulation. For operators, that means documenting how your systems can cause real-world harm now—and being ready to show regulators the controls you’ve already put in place.
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