Kaplan: AI Will Function as an Autonomous, Alien Intelligence Within Five Years
Craig Kaplan · AI Safety with Craig Kaplan of iQ Company | The Innovators & Investors Podcast · Jan 27, 2026 · at 7:24
AI pioneer Craig Kaplan outlines the shift from narrow productivity tools to autonomous superintelligence on The Innovators & Investors Podcast.
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“When I go out, you know, five plus years, I realize that this is not really a tool. What's happening is we're having a technology that's more like an intelligent entity. It's more, it's closer to an alien intelligence than it is a tool, and this alien intelligence will be, Thousands of times smarter and faster than us. And it will set its own goals and it will be autonomous.”
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