Should We Stop Building Superintelligent AI?

AI companies treat superintelligence as inevitable, but safety incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach highlight the dangers of systems beyond human control. The core question: what happens when we can no longer reliably manage what these systems do? On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, AI researcher Connor Leahy of nonprofit ControlAI argues the risks now outweigh the benefits of alignment and containment strategies alone. He makes the case for stopping superintelligence development entirely, a position once considered fringe that is now gaining legislative traction.