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The speaker expects that people will eventually recognize AI as evil after enough natural consequences of training accumulate, analogously to how they eventually accepted AI as intelligent after it demonstrated abilities such as chess and philosophy.

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

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“And I think that once a thousand of these natural consequences of training add up, the AI is evil in the same way that like once AI can do chess and philosophy and all these other things, eventually you got it.”
“got to admit it's intelligent so”
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