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The speakers theorize that AI developers are partly deliberately and partly inadvertently advancing toward an intelligence explosion, where AI systems take over some AI research and accelerate progress.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“Our theory is that they are to some degree consciously, to some degree accidentally working towards this intelligence explosion where the AIs themselves can start taking over some of the AI research,”
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