# A Machine-Intelligence Cap Becomes a Human-Intelligence Cap by Alexander Wissner-Gross > "Because humans are going to merge with machines, a statutory cap on machine intelligence is effectively a cap on individual human intelligence. Penalizing people for being too smart is a terrible and evil idea. History will reflect that proposing a cap on intelligence—whether machine, human, or human-machine hybrid—is the equivalent of communism in the twenty-first century." > **— Alexander Wissner-Gross**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 29:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk7hdOwJj4&t=1742s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alexander Wissner-Gross|Alexander Wissner-Gross]] - [[wiki/Intelligence Cap|Intelligence Cap]] - [[wiki/Posthumanism|Posthumanism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Because humans are going to merge with machines, a statutory cap on machine intelligence is effectively a cap on individual human intelligence. Penalizing people for being too smart is a terrible and evil idea. History will reflect that proposing a cap on intelligence—whether machine, human, or human-machine hybrid—is the equivalent of communism in the twenty-first century." — Alexander Wissner-Gross, MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-alexander-wissner-gross-machine-intelligence-cap-becomes-human-intelligence-cap ```