Preparing for the Age of Superintelligence

By Troy Tyrell | WBN News Vancouver | July 02, 2025
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No Time Left to Wait

Let’s be honest: reading about AI extinction risk is exhausting. But there’s a silver lining. While the tech accelerates, so does our chance to steer it, if we act fast.

Musk, alongside major voices like Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), and Sam Altman (OpenAI), is calling for safeguards. These include:

Moratoriums on training new frontier models until safety tests are passed
Open development standards
Global AI governance frameworks

Because once the genie is out, alignment becomes impossible.

What’s Being Done Right Now

Musk has launched xAI, a new lab focused on making AI curious, aligned, and pro-human. Their chatbot Grok is the first test case, designed to push openness and challenge centralized control.

Meanwhile:

OpenAI is forming partnerships with safety-focused orgs
Anthropic has built a “Constitutional AI” model that explains its decisions
Global groups are pushing for U.N.-level AI policy discussions

But none of it matters if the public stays silent.

What Can You Do About It?

Even here in Vancouver, far from Silicon Valley, your voice matters. AI is shaping industries, health, training, finance, and media. Staying silent is not safe. It’s surrender.

Here’s how to get involved:

Educate – Read independent AI journalism like AI Alignment Forum or LessWrong.
Pressure – Push local representatives to support tech safety regulations.
Support Open Initiatives – Choose companies that value transparency over hype.

And most importantly? Talk about it. With your family, with your clients, with your community. Ignorance is the most dangerous input we can feed AI.

Final Words

We don’t get a reset button. Superintelligence is coming. Whether it leads to freedom or extinction depends on what we do right now.

Let’s build a world where AI works with us, not against us.

By Troy Tyrell, Founder of Tsquared Personal Training
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