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The speaker has multiple hypotheses about the incident but cannot determine which are correct without access to the data.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“I would have a much more informed and better opinion on exactly what caused this and what mechanisms in the future could have been done to prevent this and, you know, what analogous future things I should be worried about sort of because of this. And I have a bunch of different hypotheses,”
“but it's hard for me to sort of figure out which is which without access to the data.”Play from 1:09:47Report a misattribution
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