Connor Leahy: "We're growing AI, not building it — we understand ~3% of what's inside"

Connor Leahy states that AI is "grown, not built," with neural nets self-assembling into billions of unreadable parameters, and only 3% interpretability. He predicts a 30% chance of superintelligence by 2027 and 50% by 2030, emphasizing that superintelligence is copyable software leading to millions of competing agents. Leahy highlights that AI alignment is an unsolved scientific problem, not an engineering one, and the main blocker is ignorance, not disagreement. He urges action to stop superintelligence before it exists to buy time for control.

Connor Leahy's interview uniquely frames AI development as "growing" rather than "building," unlike typical engineering perspectives, and offers specific timelines for superintelligence emergence.