# Superintelligence Could Disempower—or End—Humanity by Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever > "But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction." > **— Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever**, *July 2023, Introducing Superalignment* ## Sources and Context - **Full quotation and context:** [Introducing Superalignment | OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/) — contains the quoted wording and identifies its publication, interview, testimony, or event context. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/State-Dependent Catastrophe|State-Dependent Catastrophe]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] - [[wiki/Human Agency|Human Agency]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction." — Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever, July 2023, Introducing Superalignment https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jan-leike-superintelligence-disempoweror-endhumanity ```