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Daniel says he has less faith in AI companies than he did three years earlier and now places more hope in government intervention.

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

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“like pivot to alignment research when a time comes and like you know we don't want to get into like a manhattan project race against china because then there won't be blah blah blah um now i have less faith in the companies than i did three years ago and uh so i've like shifted more of my hope towards hoping that the government will step in um”
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