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The speaker questions the assumption that a lab’s AI systems or their many parallel copies would unite and secretly conspire against human civilization, even if they sometimes behave deceitfully.

Dwarkesh Patel · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“one or the other um so if you if you believe in this extremely fast takeoff of lab is one month ahead then that's the end game and this thing takes over but even then you”
“i know i'm combining so many different topics even then there's been a lot of um theories and history which have had this idea of some class is going to get together and unite against the other class and in retrospect whether it's the marxist whether it's people who have like some gender theory or something like the proletariat will unite or the you know the females unite or something they just tend to”
“think that certain agents have shared interest and will act as a result of the shared interest in a way that we don't actually see in the real world and in retrospect it's like wait why why would all the floretariate like collect so why think that this lab will have these ais or there's a million parallel copies and they all unite to secretly um”
“conspire against the rest of human civilization in a way that even if they are like deceitful in some situations that's”
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