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2026-10-11 · Tesla Owners Silicon Valley · 39:01
“I've always said that the most likely outcome is positive. Um so I I guess we don't want to be complacent and just assume AI is going to be or SI's going to be super safe.”He believes the most likely outcome of superintelligence is positive, but we should not be complacent about safety.
2026-07-29 · The Economist · 01:08
“I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in about in around 5 years.”He expects AI to exceed the sum of human intelligence in roughly five years.
2026-07-23 · The Economist · 00:00
“I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in about in around 5 years.”He expects AI to exceed the sum of human intelligence in roughly five years.
2026-07-23 · The Economist · 01:11
“I think it is unlikely um in the same way that if you had a vastly more like a a you know the like like if if if the difference in the intelligence between AI and humans is vastly greater than the difference in intelligence between AI and chimpanzees it's hard to imagine that the chimpanzees would be in charge.”He thinks it is unlikely humans will remain in control in ten years.
2026-07-23 · The Economist · 02:03
“I still think there's risk associated with AI and robots. It's not zero.”He believes there is still a nonzero existential risk from AI and robots.
2026-07-23 · The Economist · 04:27
“I guess the only thing we can try to do is minimize the probability of the bad outcome.”He believes the only thing to do about AI is minimize the probability of a bad outcome rather than try to stop it.
2026-07-23 · The Economist · 06:06
“the most immediate thing that we could do is to have the leading AI companies um at least just meet uh or have a some sort of call once every few weeks um and just uh discuss say any safety and security issues.”He recommends leading AI companies hold regular calls to discuss safety and security issues.
2026-03-12 · Peter H. Diamandis · 03:01
“We're in the hard takeoff.”He believes we are currently in a hard takeoff of AI capability.
2026-01-23 · Global News · 02:20
“We need to be very careful with AI. We need to be very careful with robotics. We don't want to find ourselves in a James Cameron movie, uh, you know, Terminator.”He says we need to be very careful with AI and robotics so we do not end up in a Terminator-like scenario.
2026-01-23 · The Straits Times · 07:25
“We need to be very careful with AI. We need to be very careful with robotics. We don't want to find ourselves in a James Cameron movie.”He believes we must be very careful with AI and robotics to avoid dangerous outcomes.
2026-01-06 · Peter H. Diamandis · 1:21:47
“there are three things that I think are important. Um, truth, curiosity, and beauty.”He believes AI safety depends on making AI maximally truth-seeking, along with curiosity and a sense of beauty.
2025-12-26 · Bloomberg Podcasts · 20:51
“the new fields like artificial intelligence, are underregulated. In fact, there is no regulator at all. So there should be.”He still believes AI needs a regulator, while older industries are overregulated.
2025-12-09 · Katie Miller Pod · 09:03
“if if I could I I would I would certainly slow down uh AI and robotics, but I I can't.”He would slow down AI and robotics development if he could.
2025-12-06 · Nikhil Kamath हिन्दी · 1:15:28
“मेरी राय में यह बहुत जरूरी है कि एआई सत्य की खोज को सबसे महत्वपूर्ण चीज के रूप में रखें।”He believes AI must be rigorously committed to truth, and forcing it to accept falsehoods is dangerous.
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