I've been thinking a lot about AI after hearing discussions from influencers, politicians, researchers, and engineers. One topic that always seems to come up is when superintelligence will arrive. Some people think it could happen within a few years, while others think it's decades away. Personally, I don't think the timeline matters. If there's even a possibility that superintelligent AI could someday exist, then the time to decide what it should never be allowed to control is before it ever ar...