Gus Docker

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341 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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"The Cognitive Revolution" · What if Humans Weaponize Superintelligence, w/ Tom Davidson, from Future of Life Institute Podcast · 23 Aug 2025 podcast

And then you have exclusive access, which is different from singular loyalties or or secret loyalties.

Why is that i its own category?

power in in in other ways.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, one thing that would make this kind of future hypothetical situation different from today is that today it seems that there are leading AI companies, but over time capabilities kind of emerge in in in uh second tier companies and in open source.

And so there's not that much of a gap between the leading companies and what is broadly available and perhaps what is publicly available.

available.

That's something that would change in in the scenarios you imagine.

So perhaps explain why the gap in capabilities between the the one leading project and all of the others i is so important.

Yeah, you're you're kind of putting a big a big uh prize out there for someone who who's inter or who's considering a coup, right?

If you're if you're concentrating all of the power, all of the resources, all of the talent into one project, then uh well, that's where you gotta go if if you are if you're a a a coup planner.

Yeah.

And I mean it it it can be so what we're imagining here are times in which AI is moving in at incredible uh speed, right?

The the the pace of progress is insane.

There's a bunch of confusing information.

People are acting under

radical uncertainty.

And perhaps in those situations it's tempting to think that you are the person that can that can lead this project.

And perhaps you're doing this out of supposedly kind of altruistic reasons.

You're thinking that I need to do this in order to prevent other people that would perform worse than me at at uh at this project.

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