Today's large language models will not reach human-level intelligence. We need a different paradigm — objective-driven systems with world models, persistent memory, and planning. Such AI will be a controllable tool that amplifies humanity, and the extinction fears are vastly overblown.
Intelligence is not intrinsically a desire to dominate; we design the objectives and can build in guardrails. Open research and open-source models make AI safer and more trustworthy, not more dangerous, by distributing scrutiny and control.
An LLM with no world model and no planning matching human-level reasoning and planning — or clear evidence that highly capable AI intrinsically tends to seek power.