Gans's blog post of 23 June 2023, written after the Munk debate of that week, argues that even assuming a superintelligent machine emerges, killing humanity would be costly and unnecessary for it, that a rational machine would keep its options open, and that self-improvement poses it control problems that would slow its rise.

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