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The speaker warns that if AIs become capable of subverting all control measures and attempt to harm humans, control will fail.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“You know, control is sort of there's a time bomb associated with it. In particular, the time bomb is when are the AIs like so smart and so good at sort of like subverting any control measures that we put in that if they were trying to screw us over,”
“we would just fail.”Play from 1:02:10Report a misattribution
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