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Published · transcript-backedDaniel Kokotajlo: belief
24 Jun 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks)
“Think that I mean, there's probably some of that there to some extent, for sure. But at least my experience at OpenAI was that there was more pressure to not talk about the risks in public and to downplay that sort of thing.”
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- Daniel Kokotajlo
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- 24 Jun 2025
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…The tech companies seem to like scaring people, as far as I can tell. Oh, I disagree. Think that I mean, there's probably some of that there to some extent, for sure. But at least my experience at OpenAI was that there was more pressure to not talk about the risks in public and to downplay that sort of thing. There is no pressure to play it up, at least not as far as I could tell. And if you look at the public messaging by Sam over the years, he certainly started to talk about it less and less and less as Well, he he I mean, partly because I pushed him. But when we talked at the Senate, he's he didn't answer the question, what were you most worried about? I mean Right. Right. I made Blumenthal come back. But Blumenthal says it's Jobs, and and and he Sam gives his explanation why he's not that worried about Jobs. Right. And I say to Blumenthal, you should really ask him a question. And and Sam there said, my biggest worry is that we do I can't remember the exact words, but substantial harm to humanity. And when he was back at the Senate a few weeks ago his biggest harm was like in so many words like we don't make all the money and extract all the value that we could or something like that.…
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