Going all in on AI is not the highest-return strategy for human flourishing, even if AI does produce rapid scientific advances.

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  Managing the transition to a world with abundant and powerful AI to optimize for safety and benefits to people should be one of the world's highest priorities.

  Altman says managing the transition to abundant and powerful AI should be one of the highest priorities in the world. Trefethen says going all in on AI is not the highest-return strategy for human flourishing even if AI does produce rapid progress, because the bottlenecks that remain are not ones a model removes. Both are priority claims, and they rank the same portfolio differently.

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• Rapid AI progress does not automatically produce rapid medical progress; without complementary investment, people still get cancer and Alzheimer's. JTJacob Trefethen2 Aug 2025
• AI research is on a good trajectory overall — good for science and good for society — and existential concerns will only become relevant in the distant future. YBYoshua Bengio12 Aug 2023
• Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research. RGRyan Greenblatt11 Aug 2026
• Even the most advanced AI cannot be followed blindly in investing, where value added is zero-sum and what is widely known is therefore worth little. RDRay Dalio10 Jun 2026
• Whenever AI can do something as well as or better than humans, that thing arguably stops being valuable or special. PLPieter Levels28 Sept 2026

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