jonfaw

Why is it so hard to get a passport for a child of international adoption. The state department has all the records for my child's entry into the US under an I-9 visa and I included a copy of her re-adoption records in the state I live in. Yet we were required to submit an original notarized copy of her international adoption decree with translations for passport approval. I had to get my senator's office involved to get this processed. The records required are literally unreplacable in the event of getting lost in the mail, and taking them to a passport office requires weeks in advance appointments, all for records that are on file already for children of international adoption. This was a huge problem for my family. What can be done and how can it be fixed?

Has anyone developed a failsafe model for an off switch for a superhuman intelligence?

The consequences of an AI that can out think us could be benign, like the children in your analogy. Or they could be as dark as Skynet or the Matrix, or worse, or much better. I like your optimism, but they have already had to turn off one AI (a chatbot) because it decided after a few days that Hitler was a righteous dude. A super intelligent silicon based life form won't be our child, and even if it was, look at what Oedipus put his folks through.