Can AI be contained? The containment problem

We should be able to demonstrate to ourselves that the tech we are building is serving us. Tech should not be allowed to get out of control. 

"Containment" was once the byword for an American foreign policy aimed at limiting the Soviet Union's expansion. Suleyman does not see AI as a Soviet-style adversary, but thinks retaining human control of AI will require the same kind of long-range master plan as the Cold War.