Prediction · AGI + ASI
Paul Christiano on AGI + ASI
Said
A few years could separate major economic effects from AI doing everything, even under a comparatively gradual takeoff.
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He expected human-level AI to arrive in an already transformed world with many competing powerful systems. The two-year example was a plausible transition duration, not an absolute arrival deadline.
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Transcript: discussion of slow takeoff and human-level AI; speaker explicitly characterizes the scenario as speculative.