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The speaker says governments lack substantial AI expertise and are not hiring highly capable technical AI experts.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“There's sort of two problems going on.”
“One is there isn't very much AI expertise,”
“There's like, you know, their government is not hiring like really high quality technical AI experts who really know what they're doing.”Play from 1:20:39Report a misattribution
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