Superintelligence

(2015) It is not known whether artificial general intelligence will arrive in a matter of years, by the end of this century, or only in future centuries.

Regardless of the initial timescale, once artificial general intelligence is developed, a “superintelligent” system that “far exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in practically every area of interest” will probably follow with surprising rapidity.

Such superintelligence would be very difficult to control.

“Better safe than sorry” considerations ... (I say)