opinion claim
The speaker believes that several controversial and niche views about AI have turned out to be true.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“like the incentives for everyone in dc are not towards like sort of like truthfully and accurately understanding situation the incentives are sort of um for every individual to sort of like say stuff that sounds good and looks good and it's sort of like within the dc overton window so that they can make a lot of friends unfortunately i think this just like comes apart from the actual reality i think the actual reality of the situation is like it turns out a bunch of sort of like controversial and niche views about ai”1:20:56Report a misattribution
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