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The speakers say that many failure modes depicted in their scenario have already appeared in existing AI agents.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“but we're also not completely making this up. Like we have seen a lot of these failure modes in the AI agents that exist already.”Play from 2:08:29Report a misattribution
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