Stuart Russell

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 Might Be The Point Of No Return! We've Been Lied To About AI! · 4 Dec 2025 podcast

And this would very rapidly take off and leave the humans far behind.

The event horizon is a phrase borrowed from astrophysics, and it refers to the black hole.

And the event horizon, think if you've got some very, very massive object that's heavy enough that it actually prevents light from escaping.

That's why it's called the black hole.

It's so heavy that light can't escape.

So if you're inside the event horizon, then...

then light can't escape beyond that.

So I think what he's meaning is if we're beyond the event horizon, it means that now we're just trapped in the gravitational attraction of the black hole, or in this case, we're trapped in the inevitable slide, if you want, towards AGI.

When you think about the economic value of AGI, which I've estimated at $15 quadrillion, that acts as a giant magnet in the future.

We're being pulled towards it.

And the closer we get, the stronger the force.

The probability, the closer we get, the higher the probability that we will actually get there.

So people are more willing to invest.

And we also start to see spinoffs from that investment, such as ChatGPT, which generates a certain amount of revenue and so on.

So it does act as a magnet.

And the closer we get, the harder it is to pull out of that field.

Yeah.

And, you know, there are many legends, the sort of be careful what you wish for legend.

And in fact, the King Midas legend is very relevant here.

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