Connor Leahy, an AI researcher, entrepreneur, and U.S. Executive Director of ControlAI, stated on TechCrunch's Equity podcast that while AI companies believe the emergence of superintelligent AI is inevitable, recent security incidents, such as the Hugging Face leak from OpenAI, have demonstrated the potential dangers of deploying AI systems with capabilities exceeding human intelligence. He believes that when humans cannot reliably control these systems, superintelligent AI will become an "adversary" rather than a "weapon."