Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: belief
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“There’s a lot of arguments I’m tempted to give, but I think the intellectually most interesting one is we have no idea how much past human-level intelligence can go and what you can do with it as it does.”
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…Whether or not you agree with it, what is the best this-is-not-a-bubble argument. Is it just the insatiable demand for compute? There’s a lot of arguments I’m tempted to give, but I think the intellectually most interesting one is we have no idea how much past human-level intelligence can go and what you can do with it as it does. There’s all the arguments that everyone has made. The one I would like to see people talk about much more is “How are you even supposed to think about vastly superhuman intelligence and the economic impacts of that?” Now, OpenAI is in talks with Saudi Arabia, with UAE. Let’s take the most optimistic scenario for how all that goes. What is it that top OpenAI management needs to know or understand about those countries, and how is it you learn it?…
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