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Automating the full AI research-and-development process would be destabilizing if technically feasible, but not if the claims are merely hype and the capability cannot be achieved.
Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“Or let's say potentially destabilize it. I mean, if it's just hype and they can't really do it, it's not destabilizing.”
“But if”
“if”
“it opens up”
“one”
“arms.”
“of them achieves”
“it. If it were technically feasible,”
“that would be destabilizing, yeah.”Play from 31:15Report a misattribution
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