Because it's like cavemen pondering the safety of nuclear fusion after discovering fire. Yes: nuclear fusion could be dangerous. No: there is nothing useful that can come out of such "research".
You know what would be useful for cavemen to ponder? The safety of fire. Or you know, just staying alive because there are more dangerous things out there.
The current state of so-called "AI" is our fire. It's impressive and useful (and there are real dangers associated with it) but it has no bearing on intelligence, let alone superintelligence. It's more likely that a freak super-intelligent human will be born than that we accidentally produce a super-intelligent computer. We produce a lot of intelligent humans, and we've never produced a single intelligent computer.
As it stands, we don't have the understanding or the tools to do anything useful wrt safety from a super-intelligent AI. We do have the understanding and tools to do something useful about asteroids and climate change.
You know what would be useful for cavemen to ponder? The safety of fire. Or you know, just staying alive because there are more dangerous things out there.
The current state of so-called "AI" is our fire. It's impressive and useful (and there are real dangers associated with it) but it has no bearing on intelligence, let alone superintelligence. It's more likely that a freak super-intelligent human will be born than that we accidentally produce a super-intelligent computer. We produce a lot of intelligent humans, and we've never produced a single intelligent computer.
As it stands, we don't have the understanding or the tools to do anything useful wrt safety from a super-intelligent AI. We do have the understanding and tools to do something useful about asteroids and climate change.