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The speakers consider whether, within the next few years, AI systems could perform a broad range of human-substituting knowledge work, including AI research, as humans in the cloud.

Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“You know, is it possible that in the next few years we will have AIs that are like humans in the cloud and they can just do all sorts of knowledge work in a way that substitutes for humans,”
“including AI research,”
“for example?”
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