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prediction claim

The speaker suggests that a future society that bans slavery and torture might be a surveillance state where an AI knows what is happening everywhere.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“This may be in some sense a surveillance state in the sense that there is some AI that knows what's going on everywhere,”
2:26:38Report a misattribution
0.65how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.80importance to the conversation
0.97confidence the claim was read correctly