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The speaker's pessimism about AI stems partly from believing AI development relies too much on trial-and-error alchemy and too little on principles.
Unidentified speaker · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025
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“I think part of my darkness about it is I think there's too much alchemy and not enough principles.”Play from 1:05:27Report a misattribution
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