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The speaker says that greater access to information about the incident would let him better assess its causes, possible preventive mechanisms, and analogous future risks.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“If I personally had much more access to what was going on.”
“I would have a much more informed and better opinion on exactly what caused this and what mechanisms in the future could have been done to prevent this and, you know, what analogous future things I should be worried about sort of because of this. And I have a bunch of different hypotheses,”Play from 1:09:43Report a misattribution
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