The AI Box Experiment

What a Simple Experiment Can Teach Us About Superintelligence

Hein de Haan
Towards Data Science
3 min readOct 15, 2019

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Imagine it’s 2040. After years of research and dedicated programming, you believe you have created the World’s first Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that’s roughly as intelligent as humans are among all their intellectual domains.

A superintelligence will find a way to get out of the box. | Source: Pixabay

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As a science communicator, I approach scientific topics using paradoxes. My journey was made possible by a generous grant from MIRI (intelligence.org).