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Read this korrent: Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Last stated 3 years ago
13 Dec 2023
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Scott Aaronson — holds since 2008-09-07 — tap for who they are
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Scott Aaronson — no longer holds since 2023-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival. — tap to centre the map on it
Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.
Last stated 3 years ago
13 Dec 2023
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Scott Aaronson — holds since 2008-09-07 — tap for who they are
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Scott Aaronson — no longer holds since 2023-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff. — tap to centre the map on it
AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.
Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Tiago Forte — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Arguing that human-level AI is very unlikely within twenty years is now the minority position, and the burden of proof has moved onto it. — tap to centre the map on it
Arguing that human-level AI is very unlikely within twenty years is now the minority position, and the burden of proof has moved onto it.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Apr 2025
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Helen Toner — holds since 2025-04-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable. — tap to centre the map on it
Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable.
Last stated a month ago
15 Sept 2026
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M.G. Siegler — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together. — tap to centre the map on it
AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together.
Last stated 7 months ago
6 Apr 2026
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Helen Toner — holds since 2026-04-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Human-level AI will arrive in 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence, not in the decades-to-centuries range previously assumed. — tap to centre the map on it
Human-level AI will arrive in 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence, not in the decades-to-centuries range previously assumed.
Last stated 3 years ago
12 Aug 2023
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Yoshua Bengio — holds since 2023-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now. — tap to centre the map on it
Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now.
Last stated a year ago
2 Aug 2025
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Jacob Trefethen — holds since 2025-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb. — tap to centre the map on it
AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb.
Last stated a year ago
23 Jul 2025
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Demis Hassabis — holds since 2025-07-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad. — tap to centre the map on it
A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.
Last stated a year ago
7 Oct 2025
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Mr. Money Mustache — holds since 2025-10-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail. — tap to centre the map on it
A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.
Last stated 2 years ago
7 May 2024
BS
Buck Shlegeris — holds since 2024-05-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score. — tap to centre the map on it
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
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Henrik Karlsson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A unit of measure needs defining, perhaps via a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which a single model can solve. — tap to centre the map on it
A unit of measure needs defining, perhaps via a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which a single model can solve.
Last stated a month ago
15 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them. — tap to centre the map on it
Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
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Cory Doctorow — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect. — tap to centre the map on it
Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.
Last stated 7 years ago
5 Nov 2019
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François Chollet — holds since 2019-11-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 10 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Last stated a month ago
17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
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Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.
Last stated 13 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
No longer holds Scott Aaronson
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Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.
Last stated 13 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
No longer holds Scott Aaronson
Similar wording
AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Tiago Forte
Similar wording
Arguing that human-level AI is very unlikely within twenty years is now the minority position, and the burden of proof has moved onto it.
Last stated 1 Apr 2025 · 2 years ago
Holds Helen Toner
Similar wording
Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds M.G. Siegler
Similar wording
AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together.
Last stated 6 Apr 2026 · 7 months ago
Holds Helen Toner
Similar wording
Human-level AI will arrive in 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence, not in the decades-to-centuries range previously assumed.
Last stated 12 Aug 2023 · 3 years ago
Holds Yoshua Bengio
Similar wording
Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now.
Last stated 2 Aug 2025 · a year ago
Holds Jacob Trefethen
Similar wording
AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb.
Last stated 23 Jul 2025 · a year ago
Holds Demis Hassabis
Same subject: AI alignment
A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.
Last stated 7 Oct 2025 · a year ago
Holds Mr. Money Mustache
Same subject: AI alignment
A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.
Last stated 7 May 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds Buck Shlegeris
Same subject: AI alignment
A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Henrik Karlsson
Same subject: measuring intelligence
A unit of measure needs defining, perhaps via a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which a single model can solve.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Paul Graham
Same subject: measuring intelligence
Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Cory Doctorow
Same subject: measuring intelligence
Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.
Last stated 5 Nov 2019 · 7 years ago
Holds François Chollet
Same subject: LLMs
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Last stated 1 Jan 2026 · 10 months ago
Holds Jason Lemkin
Same subject: LLMs
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Dex Horthy
Same subject: LLMs
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
Last stated 17 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Patrick Collison