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In two Plan A war games, a scenario involved an incumbent president expecting to lose an upcoming election and fearing that the opposition would take control of superintelligence.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“and then see how it goes wrong and just to give an example i think in two separate um plan a war games it went wrong in roughly the following way basically”
“there's going to be an election coming up and the president in power is expecting to lose power and have his opposition party take over.”
“I don't want, you know, I don't want the other my adversaries in the other party to to now be in charge of superintelligence or whatever. So.”Play from 14:29Report a misattribution
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