# Power Beyond Previous Technology by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever > "By contrast, the [superintelligent] systems we are concerned about will have power beyond any technology yet created, and we should be careful not to water down the focus on them by applying similar standards to technology far below this bar." > **— Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever**, *May 2023, Governance of Superintelligence* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "By contrast, the systems we are concerned about will have power beyond any technology yet created, and we should be careful not to water down the focus on them by applying similar standards to technology far below this bar." - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Restores the full authored sentence. The contrast is with current systems below a significant capability threshold, discussed immediately above on the same OpenAI page. Brackets identify superintelligence from the page heading and preceding paragraph. [Direct source](https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Governance of superintelligence | OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/) — 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/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Skeuomorphic Interval|The Skeuomorphic Interval]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Sam Altman|Sam Altman]] - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "By contrast, the [superintelligent] systems we are concerned about will have power beyond any technology yet created, and we should be careful not to water down the focus on them by applying similar standards to technology far below this bar." — Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, May 2023, Governance of Superintelligence https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sam-altman-power-beyond-previous-technology ```