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The speaker considers it an important AI-progress milestone when an AI company would prefer to dismiss its human workers rather than its AI workers.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“So like, I think one one benchmark I really care about, or maybe not really benchmark one milestone of AI progress that I think is extremely important is sort of this, the point at which an AI company would rather fire their humans than fire their AIs.”Play from 23:18Report a misattribution
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