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Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: evaluation
4 Jun 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
“Now we're in a place where they are excited about AGI and they're like, "fuck, we want to have GPT-5 while you're going to be off building superintelligence. This Atoms for Peace thing doesn't work for us.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- 4 Jun 2024
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Transcript context
…With little accountability. There’s no Microsoft board. It's only the dictator. Let's say you're right, that you shouldn't have gotten them excited about AGI in the first place. Now we're in a place where they are excited about AGI and they're like, "fuck, we want to have GPT-5 while you're going to be off building superintelligence. This Atoms for Peace thing doesn't work for us. " If you're in this place, don't they already have the leverage? The UAE on its own is not competitive. They're already export-controlled. You're not supposed to ship Nvidia chips over there. It's not like they have any of the leading AI labs. They have money, but it's hard to just translate money into progress.…
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