We have always liked the idea that intelligence can be engineered: build the machine, write the code, define the rules and, voilà, out comes something clever. Superintelligence is an existential agent that possesses the intellectual capacity to think, debate and make its own decisions; to reason, rationalise and question its own existence. Before we go any further, I’d like to make a few things clear. Firstly, a superintelligent agent should never, ever reach an intellectua

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