Ajeya Cotra

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AI safety researcher; senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy

Speaks on: AGI AI AI Policy AI Risk AI Safety

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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AI R&D is fully automated in the middle of a year and this kicks off a rapid intelligence explosion that leads to very broadly superhuman AI.
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