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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Most Important Century for Humanity

If we developed the right kind of AI systems this century, and that looks reasonably likely, that could make this century the most important of all time for humanity. The world will quickly become extremely different from how it is today. And when you picture that kind of advanced world, I think there is a decent reason to think that if we did get that rate of scientific and technological advancement, we could basically end up with a civilization that expands well beyond its current limits.

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