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A one-year timeline for superintelligences to gain practical experience is considered plausible partly because their population could be about one million, roughly comparable to the size of the scientific industry, though perhaps somewhat smaller.

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

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“One, you're going to have something like a million of them.”
“And quantitatively, that's like comparable in size to the existing scientific industry,”
“I would say,”
“like, maybe it's a bit smaller, but it's not like dramatically smaller.”
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