Mustafa Suleyman
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And the cost of building one of those things is going to be zero marginal cost.
And the race has been, how do we unlock these capabilities as fast as possible?
So everyone's going to have access to them in 20 years, maybe even much earlier.
We wanna create and produce and invent and solve challenges.
And that's going to completely change how we get things done, how we interact with one another, and potentially cause a huge amount of chaos.
And that's what we did with steam and oil and electricity and wind and food systems.
And we've seen this explosion of creativity, certainly in the last couple centuries, but that's also been the history of our species, right?
And so a little bit of friction in the system could be our friend here.
And that's really all that I'm positing in the containment hypothesis.
So the goal there has been proliferate, spread it as far and wide as possible so that everyone can enjoy the benefits immediately.
Containing things so that we can collectively as a society think carefully about the potential future consequences and the third order effects, that seems like a rational thing to do at this point.
Now, the thing that I've speculated about, which is the containment hypothesis,
is that if we do that this time with AI technologies in a completely unfiltered way, then that has the potential to empower everybody to have a massive impact on everybody else in real time.
Yeah, good question.
I mean, there are lots of potential ways that this technology gets misused.
And in some respects, this concentrates power.
So we aren't just talking about spreading information and knowledge.
It makes it easier for a small group of people to see what is happening in an entire ecosystem, i.e.
That's one part of it.
But increasingly, your AI agents or your co-pilots will be able to actually do things in the real world and in the digital world.