The speaker suggests that the current period may be the most deceptive in human history because AI appears intelligent.

“physical property of stuff in the universe and we can create an abstraction that seems to work reasonably well for abstract domains like playing chess and so on and you know these models are becoming quite adaptive and they have a lot of capabilities and so on and you see it's just so deceptive it might be the most deceptive time in human history because it seems like it is intelligent”