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AIs might decide, using superior research taste and planning, to catalog and closely examine every biomolecule in the world.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“And like, yeah, maybe the AIs will decide using their superior research taste and good planning that the best thing to do is just catalog every single biomolecule in the world and look at it really hard.”Play from 1:12:24Report a misattribution
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