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The speaker expects AI capabilities to expand across problem types and degrees of verifiability until they encompass the tasks humans can perform.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“and sort of there's going to be this continuous process of expanding out through the different types of problems and different like how like exactly how verifiable each task is until you get sort of”
“sort of everything that humans could do because after all we humans do learn how to do these long horizon tasks somehow”Play from 27:59Report a misattribution
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