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Ryan Greenblatt says that enabling AI to take over and improve a company, increase chip-fab output, or persuade Congress to pass legislation would require a higher tier of data.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“just the same way as in my claim is that in gp if you went back to 2022 and you had gpt 3.5 and you're like trying to make it better at coding uh without human experts i think it would have been very very difficult let me give you an example of what i imagine would be the difficult different going from uh gpt8 to asi so one of the things you'd need gpt8 to be good at or like you'd want asi to be good at is like i'm going to like take over a company and like make it much more profitable and like do”
“like do all kinds of crazy shit to make it work better i'm going to like take over a fab and like produce more chips i'm like this is like the tier of data that will i'm going to like go into congress and trying to convince them of to pass some bill blah blah blah”Play from 23:25Report a misattribution
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