It's interesting to imagine the government involvement that will surely come, you know, soon enough everywhere. At least 58 of the researchers surveyed called AGI an important concern. There's research moving from generative AI to AGI, according to again, 57. A large fraction are worried to the extent that there would be like nuclear level of catastrophe as a result of AGI.
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