Calum explains four scenarios (the four Cs) that may play out when superintelligence arrives, and the role that machine consciousness could play in determining whether we get catastrophe or celebration.
As Joscha Bach, a well-known AI researcher and philosopher says, “Attempting to control highly advanced agentic systems far more powerful than ourselves is unlikely to succeed. Our only viable path may be to create AIs that are conscious, enabling them to understand and share common ground with us.”
