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The speaker believes frontier AI systems are particularly well positioned to gain power because they can benefit from an intelligence explosion.
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“And frontier systems are in the best possible spot in the world for”
“grabbing power because they can,”
“as we mentioned,”
“they can ride the intelligence explosion.”1:40:12Report a misattribution
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