Sam Harris

I mean, something that actually brings China and America to the table with, you know, ashen faces wondering how they can collaborate to move the final yards into the end zone safely.

Yeah.

You need something.

It's hard to imagine what is going to solve this coordination problem short of something that's terrifying.

Yeah.

There's not a regime of regulation, certainly on our side, that is going to force anyone to do anything.

We're the scary ones in this relationship.

So what are you expecting in the near term?

Let's leave concerns about alignment aside, unless you think we're going to plunge into superintelligence in the next 12 months.

What will you be unsurprised to see in the next year or two?

And what are you most worried about?

No, I didn't see that.

Well, it all falls out of what we mean by the concept of general intelligence, right?

So once you admit that we're building something that by definition is more intelligent than we are, right?

And any increment of progress, provided we just keep making that progress, is eventually going to deliver that result.

Leaving aside the alignment problem, let's say it's just perfectly aligned, right?

We build it perfectly the first time.

It does exactly what we want or what we think we want.

It should be obvious that this is unlike any other technology because intelligence is the basis of everything else we do.

I mean, it's science.