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prediction claim

The speaker tentatively estimates that AI systems could become sufficiently independent of humans around 2040, while noting that he would need to analyze the numbers.

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In their words

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“I think it would just, I would probably need to sit down and just think about the numbers, but maybe like 2040 or something like that.”
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