I see no evidence that we're on the cusp of losing control of recursively self-improving autonomous agents. The amount of compute that has been used to train these models has grown by nine orders of magnitude in the last decade. I don't think it's going to be some intelligence explosion where suddenly the AI is trying to get out the box and manipulate us.

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