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“And that made sense when the internet was just a bunch of bulletin boards and it was not powered by AI, but we used that immunity shield and applied it to social media companies when they came along later. And so when they go and intentionally addict children,…”

“Mark Zuckerberg has publicly stated within the last week or so that he wants to build a Open source artificial general intelligence, which is the most dangerous thing you could possibly do.”

“We're just simply releasing more capabilities into society faster than society has the immune systems to absorb and adapt to all the new changes that accompany all of that AI getting released.”

“The U S has to lead and say, we need to set the terms of the race. And it's actually a race to the responsible and conscious deployment of technology that in its effect strengthens your society relative to other ones. That's the true competition.”

“And I think things like liability as a regulatory framework are powerful because people understand it, right? You as an AI company shouldn't be worried about being liable for the harms if there are not going to be any harms or risks. So if you don't think ther…”

“I won't go into technical details, but basically for about a hundred dollars, you can retrain all the safety controls off of it.”

“It's the big incentives of the attention economy that have made this problem worse, and then combine that with technology and AI. And we're heading into, you know, a bigger version of that.”

“Then you get AI and you get a double exponential. You get an exponential that accelerates its own exponential, meaning AI accelerates AI development.”

“It took two years, for example, for researchers to figure out that GPT-III.V, the predecessor to GPT-IV, had research-grade chemistry knowledge, meaning you could ask it questions about, you know, how to synthesize dangerous chemicals, and it would tell you ho…”

“I'm happy to report that informally, there are some of those dialogues that are happening between Chinese AI scientists about the risks and us ASI AI scientists about the risks.”

“In my mind, it's like, it's the next 12 months, it's like everything has to happen”

“I think we can be pro-technology and anti-externalities, and that's the nuanced position that I want everybody to be in, rather than saying you're either for tech and for acceleration or you're a D cell.”

“At the end of the day, Android and Chrome, you know, and Google benefit the more overall screen time there is. Versus not.”

“And the thing about it is that as you scale these digital brains, they end up with more emergent capabilities that no one who built them anticipated.”

“So AI is not going to get worse at emulating someone's voice, someone's handwriting, someone's likeness, their This, that's what generative AI does, is it gives you those capabilities. Anything that can be emulated will be emulated, and that's why it's generat…”

“I think that in the age of generative AI, we're going to move to these more privileged and secure environments.”

“We have to come up with new meaning for what is evidence in a world where AI can generate that evidence. And there are ways of doing that. We could live in a world where the only places that any media you see on the internet Will only be on the internet if it'…”

“In this case, what uranium was for nuclear weapons Advanced Nvidia GPU chips are for AI.”

“We only do that because we care about the vision where technology actually is in service of humanity. And to do that, we just think we have to fix the incentives.”

“You can't run infinite growth of every company demanding more attention per quarter per year forever. With a finite supply of human attention.”

“Remember that the stated mission statement of OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind from the very beginning, those three companies, Have been to create artificial general intelligence.”

“It took Instagram, I think two years to get to a hundred million users and it took chat GPT two months.”

“We did deals with the Washington post, the New York times, the economist, and they would ask us one question, which was how much did you increase the amount of time people spent on my website? Okay. How many ad views impressions did you increase?”