The speaker considers it unlikely that existing technologies will produce a highly intelligent, conscious machine intelligence in the near future.

“social and political solution um so yeah and then but then you have someone like sam altman who i don't know what's going on in sam altman's head i don't know if he's a true believer in whatever but he has gone out and said things and he's not the only one who said things like this that you know ai is going to solve the climate crisis and like i i think that in the unlikely event that we built”

“like a really intelligent, conscious machine intelligence based on existing technologies in the near future.”