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The concern is when an AI- or robot-driven economy could accumulate enough physical power to take over government, even while participating in existing supply chains.
Dwarkesh Patel · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“and then he made the point like okay fine whatever nanobots uh maybe like nanobots there's not a crux here the crux at least um to the thing he cares about which is human control is just by when can the robot economy whether or the ai economy whether it's the result of capital deepening or whether it's a result of r&d by when will they have just like the robots and they've they have more sort of like cumulative”
“of physical”
“power”
“than”
“i don't know what the analogous thing here is but you you see what i'm saying and so he's concerned about by when will they even if they're ordering components off of um alibaba or whatever by what and sorry i'm being trying maybe you see what i'm saying like even if they're integrated in those supply chains by when are they in a position where because this like part of the economy has been growing much faster they can they they could like”
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