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The war game surfaced a possible failure mode of the plan—a political incentive to accelerate superintelligence development—that the speakers had not considered beforehand.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“you know. And that's like a sort of political consideration that we didn't think about until it happened in our game,”
“you know, and it surfaced a possible failure mode of our plan.”Play from 15:16Report a misattribution
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