Sneha Revanur
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Looking ahead to 2028, it's no doubt that this like very well could be the most important presidential election year in history.
Whether or not AI timelines are shorter or longer, like there's a whole range of outcomes where this could either be the person who will be in charge of the intelligence explosion, or, you know, in any case, this will be a person who is making some very major world historic decisions about AI.
And like, what will it mean to empower this person with super intelligence potentially?
And who would we trust to hold the keys in that moment?
Yeah, I love telling the story.
I feel like it's a bit of an outlier in AI safety circles.
I didn't grow up reading sci-fi.
It took me a really long time to like feel in my bones.
This was like the most important century.
You know, I had all the hallmarks of a Bay Area teenage driver who just wanted to like spend all that time prestige farming or whatever.
If you were tracking the trend lines in deep learning, then you would have seen it coming once we had transformers and learned the bitter lesson that it was only a matter of time before we had much more powerful AI, but that wasn't me yet.
In 2020, I do think that I had one pretty good general instinct, though, which was that I thought that AI was still very underpriced politically.
I thought that it would eventually be a top voting issue, and
As a result, we needed a massive investment in politics and advocacy around AI.
And I think the basic story that I had in mind was that society would, over time, start to delegate more and more authority to AI.
Criminal justice was a motivating example for me here.
and kind of like gradually hand over the keys in scary and far-reaching ways.
At the time, I would have told you that the main risk from this was that AI wouldn't be good enough, right?
That humans would systematically overestimate AI capabilities and systematically defer to biased or otherwise unreliable systems for the sake of efficiency or whatever.
And now what freaks me out more is that society is greatly underestimating and underpreparing for AI capabilities.
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