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What Ilya Sutskever thinks about AGI

@ilya-sutskever · 28 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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7 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Ilya Sutskever has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingA human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.

    Their wordsA human being, a human being lacks a huge amount of knowledge. Instead, we rely on continual learning. We rely on continual learning.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 15th of 28 in this recording

    AI alignment

  3. Our readingBroad deployment of AI that can learn on the job will very likely produce rapid economic growth for some period of time.

    Their wordsBut I think the idea of very rapid economic growth for some time, I think it's very possible from broad deployment.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 16th of 28 in this recording

  5. Our readingAI should be deployed incrementally and in advance, because a system that does not yet exist is one almost nobody can imagine.

    Their wordsone of the one of the ways in which my thinking has been changing is that I now place more importance on AI being deployed incrementally and in advance.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 17th of 28 in this recording

  7. Our readingThe whole problem of AI and AGI is the power, and nothing else about it is the problem.

    Their wordsIndeed, the whole problem, what is the problem of AI and AGI? The whole problem is the power. The whole problem is the power. When the power is really big, what's going to happen?

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 18th of 28 in this recording

  9. Our readingThe long-run equilibrium with powerful AI may require people to merge with it, so that whatever the AI understands is transmitted wholesale to its human.

    Their wordsAnd the solution is if people become part AI with some kind of neural link++ because what will happen as a result is that now the AI understands something and we understand it too like because now the understanding is transmitted wholesale.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 22nd of 28 in this recording

  11. Our readingThe AI companies' strategies will converge, because as AI grows more powerful it becomes clearer to everyone what the strategy should be.

    Their wordsI maintain that in the end there will be a convergence of strategies. So I think there will be a convergence of strategies where at some point as AI becomes more powerful it's going to become more or less clearer to everyone what the strategy should be.

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 23rd of 28 in this recording

  13. Our readingEven with human-like learners, competition will split the AI market into specialised niches rather than hand it to one company.

    Their wordsI think what's going to happen is that the way competition like competition loves specialization and you see it in the market, you see it in evolution as well. So you're going to have lots of different niches and you're going to have lots of different companies who are occupying different niches

    ↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 24th of 28 in this recording