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Jul 11

Surprisingly few projects, companies and people work on these areas that will be needed in any potential AI future …

• formal verification,
• cryptography,
• secure and open hardware (!),
• pandemic resistance,
• and other defensive biotech, food and basic resource security,
• plus public non-power-concentrating versions of physical security

Why do you think is that? 🧐

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One thing I find striking in the discourse between AI 2040 and its detractors is that the two seem to be locked in to totally incompatible worldviews of how fast and how much of a big deal AI progress is:
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• In AI 2040, every scenario sees superintelligence of some kind emerging](https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/2075809437428646294?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g)