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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 Sept 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.”Play from 43:57Report a misattribution
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