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Comment by Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO
I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industrial revolution, and really doing what the industrial revolution did for the West, for everyone in the world. So I'm not at all worried about AGI showing up, or showing up fast. Great, right? That means 8 billion people have abundance. That's a fantastic world to live in.
I would say we should speed up the work that needs to be done to create these alignments. To align an AI model with the world, you have to align it in the world and not in some simulation.
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(2023)
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Quote confirmed via web search of the BusinessToday article and other secondary sources. Satya Nadella did say "I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up..." and expressed enthusiasm about AGI: "I'm not at all worried about AGI showing up, or showing up fast. Great, right? That means 8 billion people have abundance." Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but the page exists and the quote is confirmed by multiple search snippets. Author attribution (Microsoft CEO) is correct. The "for" vote on "Build artificial general intelligence" aligns with the quote's enthusiastic support for AGI's arrival. Considered updating to 2025 statements but those are more about measurement (10% economic growth as AGI benchmark) than support/opposition; this 2023 quote remains the cleanest "for" position. Verified by claude-opus-4-7.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 6d ago
replying to Satya Nadella