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No longer holdsI was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
Their words nowOnce I saw the empirical case that a generative AI revolution was imminent—sometime during the pandemic—I updated, hard.
No longer holdsI accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
Their words nowone must never use radical ignorance as an excuse to default, in practice, to the guess that everything will stay basically the same.
No longer holdsI was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
Their words nowOnce I saw the empirical case that a generative AI revolution was imminent—sometime during the pandemic—I updated, hard.