# Stopping Superintelligence Could Require Global Surveillance by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever > "Second, we believe it would be unintuitively risky and difficult to stop the creation of superintelligence. Because the upsides are so tremendous, the cost to build it decreases each year, the number of actors building it is rapidly increasing, and it’s inherently part of the technological path we are on, stopping it would require something like a global surveillance regime, and even that isn’t guaranteed to work." > **— Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever**, *May 2023, Governance of Superintelligence* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** "Second, we believe it would be unintuitively risky and difficult to stop the creation of superintelligence. Because the upsides are so tremendous, the cost to build it decreases each year, the number of actors building it is rapidly increasing, and it’s inherently part of the technological path we are on, stopping it would require something like a global surveillance regime, and even that isn’t guaranteed to work." - **Editorial repair and evidence:** The preceding sentence names creation of superintelligence as the object; the authors' reasons and even that isn't guaranteed qualifier are retained. [Direct source](https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Governance of superintelligence](https://openai.com/index/governance-of-superintelligence/) — The authored statement supplies the enforcement scenario and the global-surveillance qualification. ## 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/Person of Interest and The Machine|Person of Interest and The Machine]] - **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 ``` "Second, we believe it would be unintuitively risky and difficult to stop the creation of superintelligence. Because the upsides are so tremendous, the cost to build it decreases each year, the number of actors building it is rapidly increasing, and it’s inherently part of the technological path we are on, stopping it would require something like a global surveillance regime, and even that isn’t guaranteed to work." — Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, May 2023, Governance of Superintelligence https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sam-altman-stopping-require-global-surveillance ```