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AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI, despite its many risks. Let’s take our future back. (Future of Life Institute)
AI companies are racing to build superintelligent AI, despite its many risks.
Let’s take our future back.
📝 Sign the Superintelligence Statement and join the growing call to ban the reckless development of superintelligence, until it can be made safely.#KeepTheFutureHuman pic.twitter.com/Hx8WBC1byI
— Future of Life Institute (@FLI_org) October 22, 2025
In a rare display of cross-aisle unity, hundreds of influential figures—including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, conservative firebrand Steve Bannon, and talk radio icon Glenn Beck—have signed a bombshell letter demanding a halt to the unchecked development of AI superintelligence. Released by the Future of Life Institute, the “Statement on Superintelligence” calls for prohibiting advancements until there’s broad scientific consensus on safety, controllability, and overwhelming public support. As detailed in a Newsmax report, the signatories span the political spectrum, from right-wing stalwarts like Bannon and Beck to tech visionaries like Wozniak and British billionaire Richard Branson, alongside AI pioneers such as Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio.
The letter warns of existential risks, including human obsolescence, erosion of freedoms, national security threats, and even extinction-level events if superintelligent AI spirals out of control. Polling cited in the document reveals only 5% of Americans favor rapid, unregulated AI progress, with 73% demanding robust regulations and 64% opposing superintelligence without ironclad safety proofs. This bipartisan chorus underscores a growing consensus: AI’s breakneck pace poses grave dangers that transcend politics. Conservatives, long skeptical of Big Tech’s overreach, see this as validation of their warnings about unregulated innovation leading to societal upheaval. Bannon, host of the “War Room” podcast, and Beck, a vocal critic of elite-driven agendas, joining forces with left-leaning tech figures like Wozniak—who has previously decried AI’s potential for misuse—signals that the threat is too dire for partisan squabbles. Continued below this next clip
Elon Musk: “I think we’re quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, and if it doesn’t happen this year, next year for sure.” (Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025)
Elon Musk: “I think we’re quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, and if it doesn’t happen this year, next year for sure.” (Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025) pic.twitter.com/EdrR2cYFrP
— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) September 17, 2025
As Beck has argued on his Blaze Media platform, AI could amplify government surveillance and control, eroding individual liberties in ways that echo conservative fears of big brother overreach. Hinton, often dubbed an AI “godfather,” resigned from Google in 2023 to sound alarms about the technology he helped pioneer, warning it could outsmart humanity and lead to job losses, misinformation floods, and autonomous weapons deciding life-or-death matters. Bengio, another signatory, has echoed these concerns, advocating for pauses in development to mitigate risks like AI-fueled bioweapons or economic dislocations. Yet, while American leaders from both sides pause for caution, Communist China barrels forward, indifferent to global pleas for restraint. This stark asymmetry forces the U.S. into a high-stakes arms race: develop AI faster and smarter, or cede dominance to a regime that views the technology as a tool for totalitarian supremacy.
If China wins, the world loses—plunged into an era of AI-enforced oppression, where Beijing’s model of surveillance and control spreads unchecked. As Arthur Herman of the conservative Hudson Institute warns in a penetrating analysis, “The threat is not coming from Silicon Valley but from Beijing,” where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has poured over $150 billion into AI, aiming for global hegemony by 2030 through its New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. Triggered by AlphaGo’s 2017 triumph over a Chinese champion, this plan has fueled a national obsession, with China now leading in AI research papers (one-third of global output) and generative AI investments projected to hit 33% of the world’s total by 2027.China’s disregard for ethical boundaries is chilling. While U.S. figures like Bannon and Wozniak call for democratic oversight, the CCP integrates AI into its military-civil fusion strategy, developing unmanned weapons, drone swarms, autonomous shipyards, and cognitive warfare tools that could overwhelm adversaries. Continued below this next clip
Bryan Johnson says that on the eve of superintelligence, the most important thing we can do is “don’t die”!!
Bryan Johnson says that on the eve of superintelligence, the most important thing we can do is “don’t die”!!pic.twitter.com/Yvq4bONk2k
— Sarah Smith (@Defundmedianow) April 5, 2024
Herman highlights Beijing’s use of AI for domestic repression: over 500 million cameras create a panopticon, facial and gait recognition track Uighurs in concentration camps, and social credit systems enforce conformity. This extends to biotech, where AI manipulates DNA for eugenics or targeted weapons, potentially enabling racial profiling on a genocidal scale. Ignoring international calls for caution—such as those from the United Nations or even their own limited warnings about AI risks—China exports this model to autocracies worldwide, eroding freedoms and challenging U.S. alliances. If Beijing achieves “quantum supremacy” or superintelligent AI first, as experts warn it’s accelerating toward, the result could be a new Cold War victory for communism, with AI dictating global norms under CCP ideology.
The bipartisan House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party embodies this urgent recognition. In a 2024 press release, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) introduced the ENFORCE Act, a bipartisan bill to empower the Commerce Department to block adversaries like China from accessing advanced U.S. AI systems. The legislation addresses gaps in export controls, preventing the CCP from acquiring technologies that could fuel cyberattacks or bolster its military. “We cannot allow the CCP, its military, and controlled companies to acquire AI systems that could enable the next generation of cyber-attacks on the United States,” Moolenaar stated, emphasizing that current laws fail to safeguard innovations vital to national security. Continued below this next clip
The Future of AI: Will Superintelligence Save or Destroy Humanity?
The Future of AI: Will Superintelligence Save or Destroy Humanity? pic.twitter.com/pFZK54jmNP
— starship/feed (@iamnot_elon) March 31, 2024
Krishnamoorthi added that without action, adversaries will exploit U.S. AI for their surveillance state, underscoring the bill’s rationale: America must lead in AI to reshape the economy and security landscape, not hand tools to tyrants. This sentiment echoes the Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence’s final report, a comprehensive blueprint from Republican-led efforts with cross-aisle input. The report highlights shared concerns about AI’s risks—misuse for harm, privacy invasions, bias, and national security threats—while stressing the need for balanced governance that promotes innovation. Yet, it bluntly warns of adversaries like China militarizing AI, disregarding global cautions, and surging ahead with patents, datasets, and applications that undermine U.S. security. China’s participation in international standards bodies is a facade; the CCP uses them for competitive advantage, proposing more leadership roles to disadvantage American firms.
The task force recommends massive federal investments in R&D through agencies like NSF, DOE, and NIH; public-private partnerships for tech transfer; enhanced STEM education and workforce training; and agile policies to counter concentration risks. To outpace China, it urges U.S. leadership in open-source tools, energy-efficient hardware, and international alliances with like-minded nations—ensuring AI aligns with democratic values, not authoritarian control. Conservatives argue this isn’t optional—it’s existential. The task force report notes China’s AI for “cognitive warfare” and biotech convergence could lead to weapons that target specific populations, ignoring ethical red lines that U.S. developers heed. Pausing American development, as some left-leaning voices suggest, would be suicidal; China won’t wait. Instead, as Herman advocates, the U.S. needs a Manhattan Project-style push: centralized strategy, billions in funding, and military-civil integration to secure dominance. Continued below this next vid
Nate @So8res warns: building superintelligence with today’s tech isn’t control — it’s suicide. You don’t own it, it owns the planet. Until we can aim it at good, humanity must back off.
SOARES: IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES
Nate @So8res warns: building superintelligence with today’s tech isn’t control — it’s suicide. You don’t own it, it owns the planet. Until we can aim it at good, humanity must back off.@bannons_warroom pic.twitter.com/bWhye09aQY
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) September 18, 2025
The ENFORCE Act and task force proposals reflect this: block tech transfers to Beijing, invest in domestic infrastructure like data centers, and foster small-business innovation to bridge digital divides. Bannon’s signature on the letter aligns with this—caution yes, but not capitulation. As Beck has warned, unregulated AI in CCP hands could amplify global tyranny, from disinformation campaigns to autonomous killers. If China wins the AI race, the world loses its freedoms. Beijing’s vision: a humanity remade under surveillance, with AI enforcing loyalty and suppressing dissent. America’s bipartisan alarms—from Wozniak and Bannon’s letter to congressional actions—demand acceleration, not retreat. Trump-era policies, emphasizing tariffs and export controls, set the stage; now, with renewed focus, the U.S. must surge ahead. Invest in R&D, secure supply chains, and ally with democracies to ensure AI serves liberty, not subjugation. The alternative? A CCP-dominated future where superintelligence crowns tyrants, and the free world fades into obsolescence. We have a choice, develop or lose our freedom and damn all humanity to evil and CCP rule.
Links
- Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban
- Prince Harry, Meghan Join Call for Ban on Development of AI ‘superintelligence’
- China and Artificial Intelligence: The Cold War We’re Not Fighting
- Bipartisan Coalition Introduces Bill to Stop Adversaries from Gaining Access to Advanced U.S. AI Systems
- Bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Final Report
- Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence
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