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Shane Legg: uncertainty

26 Oct 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

“I don't know. At the moment, it looks to me like all the problems are likely solvable with a number of years of research.”

— Shane Legg

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Shane Legg
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
26 Oct 2023
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…If we're in 2029 and it hasn't happened yet, if there was a problem that caused it, what would be the most likely reason for that? I don't know. At the moment, it looks to me like all the problems are likely solvable with a number of years of research. That's my current sense. And what does the time from here to 2028 look like if 2028 ends up being the year? Is it just that we have trillions of dollars of economic impact in the meantime and the world gets crazy or what happens?…

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