‘One of the Most Memory-Holed Stories of 2023’: Max Tegmark

"One of the most memory-holed stories of 2023 was that the CEOs of all of these companies, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, signed this statement saying [AI superintelligence] could cause human extinction; let's be careful. They said it.

It's kind of like if Oppenheimer and Einstein had written a letter warning that nuclear weapons could kill people and then everybody just sort of forgot about it.

…This future is no longer decades away.

Dario Amodei, who leads Anthropic…predicts that it'll happen by 2027. Two years from now, we'll have AGI. We'll have what he calls a country of geniuses in a data center, where these geniuses in the data center—these AIs—are better than Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry and math at their various tasks.

…Trump is the AI president. It's going to be what he does during his watch, which determines how this goes.

…Do I really want some San Francisco-based nerd who's had too much Red Bull to drink to make decisions about something that could overthrow the US government?

…The painful truth that's really beginning to sink in, is that we're much closer to figuring out how to build this stuff than we are to figuring out how to control it.”

- MIT professor Max Tegmark, author of “Life 3.0”