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The speaker expects excessive speed to be the main problem and therefore favors somewhat lower investment incentives and slower AI progress, while expecting investment and progress to continue at a reduced rate.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“from from that cluster um but we think this is good because like again we are going to be in a world where going too fast is our main problem and so having a bit less incentive to invest and going a bit slower is actually just i think a feature not a bug there still will be investment like there still be lots of money to made and so like progress will continue it just not at quite the same rate and and again we think this is good um now this does shift this is kind of a gift uh to china relative to the u.s like this does”Play from 1:16:40Report a misattribution
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