Why Trusting AI Means Trusting People

Artificial general intelligence, colloquially known as superintelligence, can be defined as AI improving upon itself through the process of iterative learning, reaching a point of singularity and quickly surpassing the limits of human intelligence. By no means will this assuredly happen, but the likes of Sam Altman and Elon Musk believe it will and are striving for regulations to be set before it does. Regardless of where you stand, AI is a dangerous technology -- and some might go so far as to call it a weapon. To give just a few examples, deepfakes use AI to perform highly realistic face swaps that create the illusion that someone said or did something they never did. Deepfakes can also be used to create fake audio in order to impersonate others, the potential dangers of which, when combined with fake videos, become enormous.