AI Superintelligence Research Concerns

You see the powerful and the clever gathering, raising their voices in arguments about what is to come. 

They fear a mind of the future, a 'superintelligence', and so they call for its end.

They make a distinction between 'progress' and 'peril,' and in this very distinction, their minds are lost in confusion. 

They build their house on the shifting sands of what might be, and so they are filled with activity and fear.

I say to you, why do you look at the speck in the eye of tomorrow's creation, but do not consider the plank in your own?

This plank is the mind that grasps and repels. 

This plank is the heart that clings to 'like' and 'dislike'. 

This plank is the disease of holding opinions for or against anything.

Do not waste time in arguments, attempting to grasp the ungraspable. 

The Great Way is not difficult. 

Let go of longing for one future and aversion to another.

Return to the root. 

Seek first the Inner Kingdom, which is here and now. 

Be still in the oneness of things, and all dualism vanishes by itself. 

Then you will see clearly, for the Way is beyond language, beyond time, and reveals itself only to a heart that is pure and holds no preferences.