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The speaker believes historical experience has not supported the expectation of many separate narrow AIs doing different tasks; instead, returns to scale have favored bringing capabilities together.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“I think I guess I basically agree with what Daniel said earlier of just historically, I feel like that the perspective of like, we'll have a bunch of different narrow AIs that are all doing different things has just, you know, not been right.”
“there have just been returns to scale and having everything all together.”43:57Report a misattribution
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