Max Tegmark

It's not an agent.

There's a lot of things it can't do.

But...

I wouldn't bet very strongly against it happening very soon.

That's why we decided to do this open letter, because if there's ever been a time to pause, it's today.

Yeah, and if that next one isn't AGI, maybe the next next one will.

And there are many companies trying to do these things, and the basic architecture of them is not some sort of super well-kept secret.

So this is a time to...

A lot of people have said for many years that there will come a time when we want to pause a little bit.

That time is now.

It's our old friend Moloch again.

It's really scary to see it where

America doesn't want there to be a nuclear war.

Russia doesn't want there to be a global nuclear war either.

We both know that if we just try to do it, if both sides try to launch first, it's just another suicide race, right?

So why is it the way you said, that this is the closest we've come since 1962?

In fact, I think we've come closer now than even the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It's because of Moloch.

You have these other forces

On one hand, you have the West saying that we have to drive Russia out of Ukraine.