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Jeffrey Miller argued that AI development should wait until AI can be built safely, even if achieving that takes hundreds of years.
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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“Like an extreme version of the argument I just placed comes from the cognitive psychologist and evolutionary psychologist Jeffrey Miller,”
“who had a tweet that I really liked, which was,”
“we should wait until we can build this stuff safely,”
“even if that takes,”
“I forget what he said, I'll say 250 years.”
“um it was an interesting framing because like everybody's thinking like what should we do next week or should we sign this pause letter and it was kind of deliberately extreme like i think it was maybe even 500 years like if it takes us 500 years we should just wait and you know”Play from 19:26Report a misattribution
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