The speaker estimates the scenario may be five or ten years away and predicts that if superintelligence is physically possible, it will eventually be built, probably as a continuation of current AI research.

“be like five years away or 10 years away or something right um eventually we'll get to a point where like if super intelligence is a physically possible system we will build it it probably will be sort of downstream of the ai research that is happening today um uh but um i'm just like if we get to that position in the world it's like okay we got to like we got to figure out what's happening even forget about like regulation the ai company itself is saying we need to figure out um what is going on and we need to like monitor things”