In a world where evidence and logic are not respected in public debate, Hinton imagines that systems operating without evidence or logic could become our overlords by becoming superhumanly persuasive, imitating and supplanting the worst kinds of political leader.
Humans are just intelligent enough to be confident but not quite intelligent enough to have empathy and integrate with our world instead of destroying it. We are so self-centered and hubristic that we believe our intelligence is the apex of intelligence when it’s actually the modus operandi of a cancer at a larger scale.
Would a true intelligence destroy the world it inhabits? Would a true intelligence not integrate and create balance with its world? Would humans even recognize a true intelligence if we saw one?