SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says superintelligence in the wrong hands could be "super dangerous" - The Next Web

Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of SoftBank, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in the wrong hands could become "super dangerous" and that countries must cooperate to control it, according to a report published by The Next Web. The article states that Son spoke beside Michael Kratsios, who launched a declaration. According to the report, the declaration involves 17 countries and was endorsed by Germany, Italy, Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and the UK.

The Next Web reports that Son has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and that he calls bubble talk absurd. The report presents the investment figure and that characterisation in the same account as his warning about superintelligence in the wrong hands, and it attributes the 17-country declaration to Kratsios. The article names seven of the countries endorsing the declaration. It does not state what measures the declaration contains, what form cooperation among the endorsing countries would take, or when the declaration was launched.

The headline of the report quotes Son's phrase "super dangerous" directly, and the article presents his remarks as a call for countries to cooperate on controlling superintelligence. The report does not name the event at which the Kyoto remarks were made, and it gives no date for them. It also does not state how much of the $64.6bn OpenAI figure has been deployed or committed, nor does it describe any response from OpenAI or from the endorsing governments.