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Adam Becker

Guest on Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST). 240 claims across 1 episode, Aug 2026.

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33open predictions

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Adam Becker will probably write more books in the future. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
The singularity narrative predicts that superintelligent AI and technological progress will accelerate continuously until unimaginably advanced technology solves every problem. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Ray Kurzweil predicts that a universal trend toward greater complexity and intelligence will culminate in a technological singularity in 2045, when technology becomes unimaginably advanced. by 31 Dec 204520 Aug 2026pending
Gordon Moore said Moore’s law would have to end sometime in the 2020s as silicon transistors approached the size of individual silicon atoms, below which they could not be made significantly smaller. 1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 202920 Aug 2026pending
No currently foreseeable technology appears likely to preserve Moore's law in the future. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
The speaker predicts that no upcoming technology appears likely to preserve Moore’s law in the future. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Humanity's energy use will continue growing at its current rate and consume all the energy Earth receives from the Sun in roughly 300 years. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Even after expanding into space, continued exponential growth in energy use would exhaust the energy available in the observable universe in less than 4,000 years. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Energy use will not continue growing exponentially indefinitely. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Humanity will not imprint itself across the cosmos at large. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Humanity will not spread itself across the cosmos. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Intergalactic colonization by sending ships to reachable galaxies will not happen. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Humanity will not leave the solar system. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Relatively few planets appear to be remotely Earth-like, even if humanity could travel at a reasonable fraction of the speed of light. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Absent a fundamental breakthrough beyond scaling, AI systems will continue to hallucinate and therefore require human supervision. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Eliminating the need for human supervision of AI would require a major, probably transformative breakthrough that makes current LLMs seem as rudimentary as ELIZA. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Improving AI systems will become harder to check for errors while continuing to make errors. In a cluster of 4 →no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Eliezer Yudkowsky believes that sufficient computing power could make a suitable machine-learning system conscious and intelligent, enabling a self-reinforcing increase in power and intelligence that leads to an intelligence explosion and, shortly thereafter, the end of the world. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Existing technologies will probably not produce a highly intelligent, conscious machine intelligence in the near future. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Sam Altman and other people claim that AI will solve the climate crisis. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
The speaker imagines that if a highly intelligent, conscious machine were built and immediately asked to solve climate change, it would point to its own carbon footprint and say it should not have been built. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
AI could cause human extinction unless people act carefully and devote substantial resources to addressing the risk. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Many things depicted in science fiction will not happen. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Adam Becker expects the idea that ethical questions and difficult life decisions can be reduced to numbers to remain appealing to many people. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Humans will not terraform Mars. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Space-based data centers would require city-sized radiator veins to dissipate heat. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
The future of AI will depend on many choices made along the way; no specific outcome is predicted. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Space-based AI data centers will not be built. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
The Trump administration will eventually end. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Technology leaders will oppose aggressive regulation, but their opposition will not necessarily guarantee that the regulation is unsuccessful. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Society will eventually find a way to regulate technology leaders; Adam Becker is hopeful that this will happen. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Public opposition to data-center construction is increasing. no date given20 Aug 2026pending
Adam Becker believes there is a financial bubble, but is uncertain about what will happen when it bursts. no date given20 Aug 2026pending

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