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The speaker offers a scenario in which Anthropic eventually disassembles the Moon as an example of the possible endpoint of autonomous industrial expansion.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“every three months faster and faster as the technology improves because of course the ais will also be researching to improve the technology and then you end up with a situation where who knows what's going on in the rest of the world but anthropic has um disassembled the moon for example”Play from 34:39Report a misattribution
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