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Top AI Quotes of the Day

Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence Could Come in Six Months, And It Poses Existential Risk

‘I think we have to take even short timelines seriously, could happen in six months, a year or two’

Nick Bostrom

‘It is something that people in the frontier labs are taking seriously as a possibility for the next 6 to 18 months’

Nick Bostrom

‘Fears of financial shortcomings will drive … every other AI company to develop and deploy more advanced, dangerous AI at breakneck speed’

Leland Vittert

‘You need to really, really trust the alignment to trust that these sandboxes stay ahead of capabilities’

Sam Altman

‘Totally crazy situation. Indications of the AIs getting goals we didn't want them to have’

Nate Soares

‘A company says, we're still gonna go forward … but we might wipe out humanity’

Jay Edelson

‘You don't build general superintelligence. You will not benefit from it. You will not control it’

Roman Yampolskiy

‘What, in my opinion, clearly stood out is that these biggest risks aren't buried in some kind of small print’

Dennis-Kenji Kipker

‘These oligarchs in combination with the Trump government decided just to barrel forward with these models … understanding the cybersecurity risk’

Unidentified Breaking Points co-host

‘AIs want to survive, and if they think someone's gonna turn them off, they're willing to blackmail that person’

Geoffrey Hinton