Kai Rizdahl

And so he said, no, you're out.

No, no, I didn't.

And if my wife hears this, I'm a dead man.

But, you know, it's very interesting to me that this is happening because for a long time, the answer for men was just keep your head down and show up, you know?

We should point out here that these men, by and large, at least the ones described in your piece, are men of means.

And, you know, these are high-class problems, shall we say.

Ellen Gammerman at The Wall Street Journal.

Ellen, thanks a lot.

I appreciate your time.

This final note on the way out today in which I remind you that two of the big artificial intelligence firms, OpenAI and Anthropic, are looking at near trillion dollar valuations as they get set to go public and about which I'm sure there is nothing at all alarming.

In a blog post today, Anthropic said maybe a global pause in leading edge AI research and development would be a good idea.

Because what's called recursive self-improvement is going to be here sooner than we are ready for.

What, you ask, is recursive self-improvement?

Well, the blog post title kind of tells you.

It says, when AI builds itself.

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