# "Can a superintelligence do THAT?" by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Published: 2026-09-13T04:45:21+00:00
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(From the vast heaps of discarded material from my 2024 attempts at drafts for "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies".) Welcome to today's quiz show: Could a superintelligence do THAT? With us today we have our contestants: Msr. Soberskeptic and Msr. Oldhand. Soberskeptic: "I'd just like to say, however this quiz show ends up being judged, I will consider that judgment to be objectively ridiculous -- there's no way anyone can know what a superintelligence could do, in advance of empiri...

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