
Cheng-Yuan Lee | TAS
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Cheng-Yuan Lee | TAS
@TASalignment
Researcher | Civilization alignment P = F × (C − I) Technology amplifies civilization. Risk emerges when F × I exceeds H. Mapping the structural roots of AI







AI is advancing faster than our ability to manage it. We still have the opportunity to build the societal and technical guardrails we need to keep people, institutions, and democracies safe — we shouldn't let it pass us by. Interview with @m_angelmendez for @elconfidencial elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/202…


Exclusive: The U.S. has burned through so many munitions in Iran that it's complicating contingency plans to defend Taiwan, some U.S. officials say. on.wsj.com/4vOaA0b






The man who built the world's most advanced AI just gave the most sobering prediction about what the next decade actually looks like @demishassabis says that the arrival of AGI is 10 times the Industrial Revolution, at 10 times the speed, unfolding over a decade instead of a century. Most people hear that and think it sounds like tech hype but it is not. To understand what he actually means, you have to understand what the Industrial Revolution did to the world. Before it, 40 percent of children died before the age of five which is four out of every ten children. Modern medicine, modern sanitation, the collapse of child mortality from 40 percent to under 4 percent today, none of that exists without the Industrial Revolution. It triggered massive upheaval, child labor, widespread displacement, and social unrest that reshaped governments across Europe, taking a full century for the world to fully absorb its impact. Hassabis is saying AGI delivers that same magnitude of change, the good and the bad but compressed into ten years. The economic models being published right now support the concern. Economists at Epoch AI have modeled scenarios where AGI-driven labor supply so dramatically outpaces physical capital that human wages decline toward subsistence, a Malthusian dynamic not seen since before the Industrial Revolution itself. A Yale economist argues that in a post-AGI world, wages become decoupled from GDP entirely, the economy grows, workers do not necessarily share in it. But Hassabis is not a pessimist and he makes this point carefully. You would not want the Industrial Revolution not to have happened, he says and despite all the upheaval, the world is unrecognizably better because it did. His argument is simply that this time, we have advance notice and we should use it to mitigate the downsides better than we did the last time around. The last time around, we had a century to figure it out. This time we have a decade, maybe even far less.











