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SPEAKER_02 expects AI systems soon to act more like agents that deeply understand specifications rather than merely respond to prompts.

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

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“Here it was the prompt, but I think very soon it's going to be the spec where it's kind of more of an agent and it's understanding the spec in a deeper level and just thinking about that and being and if it says like, by the way, try to manipulate the government into doing this or that,”
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