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The speaker says that the general public and government have substantially less knowledge about the state of AI development than people at AI companies, and have different incentives.
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“But ultimately, everyone outside of these AI companies in the general public,”
“in the government,”
“etc.”
“has both much less knowledge of the state of things and very different incentives,”Play from 2:12:33Report a misattribution
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