Sebastian Mallaby
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195 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Apr
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quotidian real-world stuff.
So you disappear into the desert.
Yeah.
That's right.
You leave your TikTok on your phone in some... I think Kevin used to lock his phone up in a box, as I recall.
And so you do a Kevin and you go and you really, really focus and you really get the AI right in the last stages.
That was sort of Demis' vision.
And to test whether he really meant it, I was having dinner with somebody who used to be at DeepMind in that period, around 2015, 2016, and had now left.
And I said, this wasn't really true.
He didn't really.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
This guy said to me, if Demis had told me any time when I was working at DeepMind that I had to take the next flight to Morocco and hide, I would have said I'd been given fair warning.
Yeah, and I said, why Morocco?
And he said, well, you know, it's the desert.
And, you know, the Manhattan Project was in the desert.
Oh.
It's the Oppenheimer syndrome.
Well, I would say that the hedge fund guys are playing a game inside a set of fairly well-understood rules.
They're not rethinking humanity.
They're not rethinking everything about society.
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