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People who use the argument that someone else will build advanced AI tend to trust themselves more than they trust others.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“There's been this very seductive argument that has appealed to all of these people, which is basically well it's probably gonna happen anyway, if we don't do it someone else will. Basically all of these people sort of trust themselves more than they trust everyone else.”Play from 0:43Report a misattribution
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