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The speaker says Geoffrey Hinton reacted to AI's ability to tell a funny joke by thinking that he could not see where AI's capabilities might end.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“sort of he was like,”
“oh, wow,”
“like these AIs, like I don't see where it could end.”
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