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Their wordsI don't think if you let this runaway process of AI improvement spiral to its ultimate conclusion, you get a super-powerful, super-helpful assistant. I suspect you get something else entirely.
Their wordsif Anthropic is correct, if we now have AIs that are smart enough to considerably improve the process of training future AIs, and if things can be expected to speed up rather than slow down from here, then it seems very unlikely to me that this ends well.
Their wordsI do not ultimately expect that a world where humans are without economic value, where humans are not necessary to hold power or build things, is a world where humans retain significant individual rights.
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