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Daniel Kokotajlo identifies fully automated recursive self-improvement with explosive potential—not merely AI-assisted self-improvement—as a red line.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“Yeah, so I think three red lines would be no recursion where that's fully automated, not just some AI-assisted one,”
“but one that has that explosive potential.”Play from 23:41Report a misattribution
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