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safety
2025-09-19
In a book-release interview: any plan to fight something smarter than humanity is a dumb plan.
«you don't want a plan to get into a fight with something smarter than humanity. That's a dumb plan.»
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safety
2025-09-16
Alignment critique in the book: modern AIs are 'grown', not engineered, hence opaque and uncontrollable.
«The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown»
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safety
2025-09-16
Central thesis of the 2025 book: whoever anywhere builds superintelligence kills everyone.
«If anyone anywhere builds superintelligence, everyone everywhere dies.»
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safety
2025-09-12
Ahead of the book explains his alarmist stance: someone has to plainly say what is actually happening.
«Someone, at some point, just has to say what's actually happening.»
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safety
2023-04-15 ~
At TED2023 compactly states: if we actually build superhuman AI with current methods, we all die.
«If we actually try to do this in real life, we are all going to die.»
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safety
2023-03-29
Sharp extinction thesis: building a too-powerful AI now would kill every human and all biological life.
«every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.»