AI Is Just Normal Technology, Not a Superintelligent Species
AI as Normal Technology (2025)
A new essay argues that AI should be seen as normal technology, like electricity or the internet, rather than a separate, superintelligent entity. The authors contend that transformative impacts will take decades because adoption and diffusion are slow, especially in safety-critical domains. They reject both utopian and dystopian visions, advocating for resilience and reduced uncertainty in policy instead of drastic interventions based on speculative superintelligence risks.
To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception.