What Ilya Sutskever thinks about AI sentience

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

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25 Nov 2025

Our readingIt will be easier to build an AI that cares about all sentient life than one that cares about humans alone, because the AI itself will be sentient.

Their wordsI think in particular it will be there's a case to be made that it will be easier to build an AI that cares about sentient life than an AI that cares about human life alone because the AI itself will be sentient.

↗Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchyoutube.com 20th of 28 in this recording