Eric Larson

Wise human.

We sort of denominated our value...

on our intelligence.

Intelligence has marked the supremacy of our species.

Intelligence has determined the hierarchy of members of our species, right?

Like the most intelligent of the top, right?

And suddenly you have got the creation of a synthetic or silicon intelligence that in many ways already supersedes

I mean, some of the recent model releases are PhD level in individual disciplines and they're polymathic, right?

They know all of human digitized history.

And now with the emergence of reasoning and memory and tool control, you know, we're starting to see almost a speciation event happening.

Is it an invasive species?

Is it a benevolent species?

There's a lot of different views of this.

But my view is that this is a moment where the thing that has marked our supremacy is now being rivaled, a non-biological intelligence.

And so I kind of start from that premise.

And if you build it, you understand it.

We don't understand the neurology.

of this new species.

We don't understand the neurology of the models.

I mean, the euphemism in Silicon Valley is mechanistic interpretability.