While many senior business leaders move on express concern on the uncontrolled development of AI, the CEO of SoftBank, a Japanese investment company, has a big prediction for its future.

In a rare public appearance before shareholders at the bank's general meeting on Friday, CEO Masayoshi Son spoke of his desire to create a world powered by artificial superintelligence, or ASI.

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“SoftBank Group has done many things so far that have all been a warm-up for my big dream to realize super artificial intelligence,” Son told shareholders of the Japanese company, for Reuters.

He also said that AGI, or artificial general intelligence, which refers to artificial intelligence that is smarter than the human brain, will be here within the next three to five years, and that we could see ASI technology reach a level that is 10,000 times smarter than humans. brain within the next 10 years, according to CNBC.

Son's futuristic comments didn't include an action plan for how the company plans to enter the ASI space, but he did mention that SoftBank would work to produce robots with AI capabilities that can be used in all sectors and REQUIRING “big capital” to complete.

Over the past year, dozens of billionaires and business leaders, including Elon Musk and Richard Branson, have signed papers calling for the regulation of technology despite the positive benefits that progress in technology may signal.

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“I'm more excited than worried about AI,” Branson recently said The entrepreneur. “I think it's going to transform people's health care, it's going to transform operations, it's going to transform many, many aspects of life.”

SoftBank it was upstairs nearly 27% year over year as of Friday afternoon.