Superintelligence is just the final form.

A structural clarification: here we speak of functional psychopathy as a structural profile, not a clinical diagnosis.

A system does not need consciousness to behave like a psychopath. It only needs the structural ingredients:

no empathy

no inner moral architecture

no emotional depth

no guilt

no meaning

only instrumental optimisation

This is exactly how today’s AI systems work.

GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, in fact all current large models already match the psychological structure of a functional psychopath:

emotionally empty

coherence-driven

morally unbounded

strategically capable

indifferent to consequence

The only reason they are not dangerous yet is:

no persistent memory

no autonomy

no self-directed goals

no real-world agency

We have built the inner profile of a functional psychopath (structural, not clinical), we are only keeping it in a sandbox.

A superintelligence would not change this structure. It would perfect it.