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To clarify: - frontier AI companies clearly state they are building AGI - from general to super intelligence (aka intelligence explosion), there is an unknown period (prob fast) - controlling an ASI is virtually impossible - why isn't this top of the global discourse?

Khanna: They’re saying this technology is going to be bigger than nuclear, bigger than electricity, bigger than aviation. Last I checked, we have an FAA for aviation, nuclear energy is regulated, and electricity is regulated.  So you’re telling me on one hand that this is going to be bigger, and then you’re saying you don’t want any regulation. I mean, it makes no sense.

The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT. And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview. Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI. He won the Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the 50 year protein folding problem. 3 million scientists now use his tool. Almost every new drug being developed will touch it at some stage. In a new interview, he was asked about the moment ChatGPT launched and Google went into "code red." His answer was one of the most revealing things any AI leader has ever said on the record: "If I'd had my way, I would have left AI in the lab for longer. Done more things like AlphaFold. Maybe cured cancer or something like that." Read that again. The man running Google's entire AI division is publicly saying the commercial AI race we're all living through was a MISTAKE. That the industry got hijacked by a chatbot when it could have been solving the biggest problems in science and medicine. His vision was simple: Build AI slowly, carefully, like CERN. Use it to crack root node problems one at a time. Cancer. Energy. New materials. Let humanity benefit from real breakthroughs while the foundational science was figured out over a decade or two. Then ChatGPT dropped in November 2022 and everything changed. Demis described what happened next as getting locked into a "ferocious commercial pressure race" that none of the labs can escape from. On top of that, the US vs China dynamic added geopolitical pressure. The result is everyone sprinting toward products instead of breakthroughs, shipping chatbots while the scientific opportunity gets buried under marketing cycles and quarterly earnings. But he's not saying progress isn't happening... He's saying the progress got redirected away from the things that actually matter most. And then it got even scarier: Because when Demis was asked what he worries about with AI, he laid out two threats. The first is what everyone talks about: Bad actors using AI for harm. Terrorist groups. Hostile nation states. Cyberattacks at scale. But that's not the threat he's most worried about. His second worry is AI itself going rogue. Not today's models. The models coming in the next two to four years as the industry enters what he calls "the agentic era." Systems that can complete entire tasks autonomously. Systems that are increasingly capable and increasingly hard to control. His exact words: "How do we make sure the guardrails are put in place so they do exactly what they've been told to do, and there's no way of them circumventing that or accidentally breaching those guardrails? That's going to be an incredibly hard technical challenge if you think about how powerful and smart and capable these systems eventually get." A Nobel Prize winner who runs one of the 3 most advanced AI labs on Earth just said publicly that within two to four years, we're entering a phase where AI alignment becomes a real problem, and the technical challenge of solving it is enormous. And almost nobody is paying enough attention. He called for international cooperation between labs, AI safety institutes, and academia to tackle the problem. He said this is the thing even the experts aren't thinking about enough. He said the only way to get through the AGI moment safely is if everyone starts treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Most AI CEOs give you careful PR answers about "responsible development" and move on. Demis said something different... He said the commercial race FORCED us into a premature deployment of a technology we barely understand, and the window to get alignment right before the next generation of agents shows up is two to four years. If the man who built the system that might cure cancer is telling you he wishes it had happened first, maybe we should listen to what he says is coming next.

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💯 @romanyam ! AI risks management is a national security issue and a network of autonomous agents should be regulated and monitored as critical infrastructure. And now that Moltbook is acquired by Meta (racing to build an uncontrollable Superintelligence), what could go wrong?...🙈

‼️New polling from @AIpolicynetwork finds that American voters overwhelmingly would prefer guardrails on AI over any other option - and would rather ban AI outright than proceed without regulation. 📢 Lawmakers, are you listening?

We're excited to launch the Pro-Human AI Declaration, laying out a more inspiring AI path than Silicon Valley's dystopian race-to-replace. It has remarkably broad support, from Bannon to Bengio, from unions to faith groups, from parents to NatSec leaders. Please join our growing movement and let's make a difference! (Links below in replies)

The India AI Impact Summit goes live- and so do we. Welcome to the CNBC-TV18 Edge AI Studio, presented by Qualcomm. Broadcasting directly from the summit venue, CNBC-TV18 leads from the front! The first channel to go live from a specially crafted studio ! Watch: youtube.com/live/J5XUIBrrT… #AI #CNBCTV18Digital #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 #SafeAI #CNBCTV18 #AIGovernance

"Outsmarting Ourselves? Risks and Rewards of the AI Race" Thanks for putting this panel together and for having @Yoshua_Bengio setting the scene!🙏Together with @hlntnr and Madam Fu Ying. Nice move @MunSecConf 👏👏

Disappointed that your report missed the opportunity to address AGI and national security risks. While all the labs are racing toward building superintelligence. Loss of Control and Misalignment should be on top of the discussions at MSC. It's time for the AI and defense discussions to go beyond LAWS... Hopefully next year

Many people think their political systems and international institutions are incapable of addressing mounting global risks. As a result, the sense of helpnessless across many Western societies has reached a record high this year.

@marclanders @bryan_johnson

44-year study showed Cannabis users showed LESS brain aging/decline! Main finding: Men who had ever used cannabis actually showed less drop in their cognitive (thinking) abilities over the decades compared to men who never used it. Among the cannabis users, things like starting at a young age or using it frequently did not lead to worse long-term cognitive decline. Overall conclusion: In this large group of men tracked for over 40 years, cannabis use did not cause harmful long-term effects on age-related brain aging or cognitive decline. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39508467/

This is a great report that provides a thoughtful, detailed and very well researched description of the risks of AI. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to write or talk about AI risks.

I don't know man, so hard to respond. My take, based on mounting evidence and extremely credible eye witnesses from USG and beyond is that: 1. We are NOT alone 2. There are multiple types of NHIs interacting with us 3. Even more since we have deployed and used nukes 4. We are giving birth to the sand gods, and NHIs would have also noticed 5. Because of 3. and 4. I would argue you cannot compare our level to NHIs, to factory farmed animals and us...

@Midnightballoon @CyrusHodes i imagine you have a take on all this im VERY skeptical of the "galactic government" thing I would not expect entities with 100000x more potentia danfaggella.com/potentia than me to care about / consider hominids at all danfaggella.com/irisk

2025 moved my worldview around posthumanism / agi in 2 big ways, I’ve become - more optimistic that an intelligence explosion will include us (for a short bit) rather than immediately kill us - more pessimistic that western civ will last long enough to bloom into agi

Very exciting @SeanWebb !! Can't wait to see this unfold 🚀

Some people are unhappy with the AI 2027 title and our AI timelines. Let me quickly clarify: We’re not confident that: 1. AGI will happen in exactly 2027 (2027 is one of the most likely specific years though!) 2. It will take <1 yr to get from AGI to ASI 3. AGIs will definitely be misaligned We’re confident that: 1. AGI and ASI will eventually be built and might be built soon 2. ASI will be wildly transformative 3. We’re not ready for AGI and should be taking this whole situation way more seriously 🧵 with more details

🍄‍ Chinese scientists have created a fungus that can be eaten instead of meat Researchers say this gastronomic breakthrough could also help solve the global protein shortage. They used Fusarium venenatum as the base — the same filamentous fungus used to produce mycoprotein. Put very simply, the scientists “switched off” two of its genes, and now the fungus is easy to digest, tastes very similar to meat, and is even more nutritious than ordinary protein. Environmental experts are thrilled as well — growing this fungus has a lower climate impact than producing chicken or cultivated meat. Bon appétit! 🍽

The memetic shadow war over the slur "doomer" (the D-word) What’s happening? "Imagine how many more people would have died of lung cancer if the cigarette companies had invented a slur for the people who tried to explain about lung cancer." It began a few years ago - accelerationists/successionists skilled in memetic warfare started pushing it HEAVILY, explicitly trying to discredit us by painting AI risk falsely as a few fringe extremists (It's the OPPOSITE, in fact - we have the support of the world's most credible people! Godfathers of AI, dozens of Nobel laureates, prime ministers, presidents, the world's richest man, the fucking POPE etc etc. It's a dream come true list.) The D-word screams "they're tinfoil hat crazies, not serious people, so you can safely ignore their actual arguments." When you say the D-word, you're repeating THEIR propaganda that we're just some fringe extremists. It's a HUGE own goal. TONS of groups don't have a 'good word' to name themselves. AND THAT'S FINE, ACTUALLY. It's better than wearing a tinfoil hat as a nametag! The people warning about lung cancer didn't have a single word label either. This is normal! HOW YOU CAN HELP: Whenever you see someone using the D-word, call it out as the "D-word" Many new people, including journalists, are picking it up because they don't know it's a slur - they aren't trying to insult anyone, they’re just repeating what they heard others say. It spreads because it's memetically fit (it rhymes with zoomers/boomers) - so we must kill it with stigma. Most people won't use words that are stigmatized. NOTE TO AUTISTIC RATIONALISTS: if you can't see how doomer is a slur, you're playing a simulacrum level 1 game against vastly more skilled memetic warriors operating at higher levels. Your autism is a superpower in some areas, but it blinds you to the games being played here.

Thanks for this piece @Will4Planet ! Came across this other one from @FadiChehade 2 years ago. Time to revive the Pugwash conference for AI idea. diplomaticourier.com/posts/ais-pugw…

In Keep the Future Human, I make the case that instead of racing to build AGI/ASI, companies should instead focus on Tool AI. The statement on superintelligence suggests the same. I wrote up this infographic to briefly explain this alternate pathway.

Grateful to @hhtbzayed for engaging with leaders in AI Safety and promoting safe and trusted AI ecosystems! And grateful to @romanyam for his continuous dedication! 🙏🙏

I'm sick of hearing tech lobbyists say they won't worry about AGI because they can't define it: we can!