Superintelligence between the real and fictitious challenges of regultation in times of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The present approach addresses the theme of superintelligence and seeks to reflect on whether there will be the emergence of such a intelligent machine that it will be able to surpass human intelligence, and, as a result, it will dominate the humanity just as human beings dominate all the less intelligent animals. The objective of the paper is to analyze the movement towards the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), verifying whether AI governance will be able to predict mechanisms in order to neutralize the intelligence that develops emerging capabilities that threaten civilization with collapse. The method used is hypothetical-deductive, based on the presentation of reflections about the literature on the topic, contrasted with the current regulation. It seeks to warn that although the intentional hypothesis is, still, quite projective of capabilities that are strictly human, such as those of expressing emotions and having feelings, it is important to reflect that event if such speculation be fictitious, it ends up confusing the boundaries between what is human and what is artificial, raising existential and philosophical questions which reinforces the conclusion that AI must be focused on people, having into consideration the fundamental rights and, mainly, in the case of emerging risks, the precautionary principle for monitoring sustainability of AI technological development.