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All of us within a small number of years will have a medical assistant that's essentially free to operate. [...] substantial quality for free for everyone in society. Unverified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

The right thing [for] Dario and Anthropic [to do is] to lay it out, give people a chance to study it, understand the vulnerabilities, come up with plans so we can handle it. Unverified source (2026)

A [central] problem with regulating frontier AI models is that a new feature emerges in these systems that is not tested, testable. [...] As long as you have this new emergent power, you have deep reasoning, deep capabilities, and they will make mist... more Unverified source (2026)

Build on these voluntary agreements to develop binding legal commitments to protect their peoples so that AI development and deployment can proceed without imposing unacceptable risks. Unverified source (2026)

The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does. Unverified source (2023)

Now there is a flood of relatively low-quality content. Because the quantity is so large, it congests the recommendation systems, so it gets harder to encounter the truly high-quality content. Unverified source (2026)

8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' I dub this: ``Linus's Law''. My origin... more AI Unverifiable source (2000)

That is not a choice a for-profit corporation should be allowed to make in a democratic society. Nor should such a company be able to restrict the ability of society to make choices about its own security. Unverified source (2026)

We are not just focusing on AI as a mathematical or algorithmic field: we are also looking at ensuring that humans are central to decision-making. [...] We are trying to work out when we need to rely on humans and their expertise, and when things can... more Unverified source (2026)

The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually "thinking." State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially "black boxes." We know the inputs and outputs, ... more Unverified source (2026)

If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are? Unverified source (2026)

We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential, mainstream theories of consciousness. We will not be in a position to know whi... more Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundament... more Unverified source (2026)

You can't have accountability without transparency. Black box models are not transparent, and they don't mix well with human oversight. Either the human blindly trusts the model—or doesn't trust it at all. Unverified source (2026)

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option; Unverified source (2019)

Those stark dependencies that we have endured so far should not be as normalised and as acceptable as it has been for the last two decades. [...] I think it takes intellectual bravery to chart our own path and understand what is good for us rather th... more Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

While generative AI has expanded the scope for automation, its primary effect is democratizing expertise, enabling more people to perform knowledge work with less training. [...] AI is positioned to be a massive engine for job creation rather than a ... more Unverified source (2026)

People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa... more Unverified source (2026)

I believe that millions of white-collar workers are going to lose their jobs in the next 12 to 18 months due to AI. AI is now able to do the work of a very, very smart human in minutes or even seconds. This is going to displace marketers, coders, des... more Unverified source (2026)

I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo... more Unverified source (2026)

To mitigate the “race to God-like AI,” Ian Hogarth—chair of the U.K. AI Safety Institute—proposed an “Island model,” in which a joint international lab performs research on superintelligence in a highly secure facility. An essential part of this pro... more Unverified source (2024)

So the the prototypical situation I'm imagining here is you know there's a kind of one ai project, which is you know somewhat ahead of the others, and maybe it it goes through intelligence explosion, whereas which by which I mean kind of AI can autom... more Unverified source

The lack of control of AI is one of the things that has been overhyped. [...] We can't control AI exactly. And it will sometimes be buffeted around by random factors. But with the right engineering, we can control them well enough for most applicatio... more Unverified source (2026)

[The companies are] deadly serious about building machines that can outperform humans at everything, and [...] deadly serious that they don't know if they'll be able to control the machines they create. Unverified source (2026)

I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence. Unverified source (2026)

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia... more Unverified source (2026)

The biggest problem is that not only do they have nondisclosure agreements, they also have a mandatory arbitration clause, which means disputes never see the light of day. Unverified source (2026)

I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI. [...] It is not out of the question that a Claude [model] was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it ... more Unverified source (2026)

This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our... more Unverified source (2026)