Joe Allen

We who call them Luddites, we know so much better.

Oh, yeah.

Most people in private, they're terrified about this or very concerned.

They just don't want to say it publicly to not lose funding.

I'm so grateful to you, Joe, for bringing up our paper because I was a co-author on it.

We found that last year, we're 27% of the way there, artificial general intelligence.

This year,

We're at 58% of the way there.

So we're not there yet.

We're getting closer fast.

So the first step is for people to understand that this is not a statement saying stop AI.

That would be as weird as saying we're against cars or whatever.

We want tools that can cure cancer, that can do all sorts of wonderful things and make America strong.

And there's nothing in this letter saying anything about not building AI tools.

But superintelligence, as Joe Allen nicely explained, there is not a tool.

We have no clue how to control something like that.

It's like trying to control vastly smarter than human aliens.

We published a paper, me and my MIT AI students, recently showing that the most popular strategy for trying to control this just doesn't work, right?

So what we simply need is for Donald Trump and...

others in our government to stand up and say, look, we are only going to allow companies to make things that they can demonstrate are tools.