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Published · transcript-backedNathan Labenz: prediction
23 Jun 2026 The Cognitive Revolution The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test
“" Uh, but I don't think it gets us probably entirely out of the, the woods and, you know, the, you may have seen the old Gwern essay about, like, why oracle AIs want to be agents. And it's, uh, I think he does make a pretty compelling point that there is, like, just a lot of gravity toward this sort of agentic, um, form factor because even just to get the right answer to a lot of questions, you kinda have to go out and find it, you know?”
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…Mm-hmm ... misuse of, of something like that. So I guess that's sort of a halfway answer. I, I, I would guess that we can control the AIs better through segmentation and kind of fine-graining of their purpose, and maybe that even has some spillovers into preventing misuse. Certainly it'd be a lot harder, you know, to use all these different constellation of AIs in a coordinated way to do something bad versus just telling your one AI, like, "Let's do this thing. " Uh, but I don't think it gets us probably entirely out of the, the woods and, you know, the, you may have seen the old Gwern essay about, like, why oracle AIs want to be agents. And it's, uh, I think he does make a pretty compelling point that there is, like, just a lot of gravity toward this sort of agentic, um, form factor because even just to get the right answer to a lot of questions, you kinda have to go out and find it, you know? And the- Mm-hmm…
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