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If AI progress stopped at Mythos 5, the speaker expects AI to function more like a normal technology: it would reshape professions and workflows, while humans shifted to tasks Mythos 5 cannot perform, but it would not fundamentally transform society.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“but even what if we're that thinking. wasn't will be like in the near like i think that if we froze ai progress right now we didn't train any new models”
“then it would sort of become more of a normal technology where like there's just so many things that mythos 5 can't do and so if we couldn't get any new models beyond mythos 5 then like it would be more like the internet where like we would restructure a lot of our professions we would”
“re-structure a lot of our workflows to incorporate copies of mythos 5 doing parts of it but then the humans would just like shift to doing more of the things that mythos 5 can't do and so there would be like you know a big change in a lot of things but it and it would it would be like the next internet in terms of would change everything in some sense but it wouldn't fundamentally change anything really”Play from 1:26:36Report a misattribution
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