2026-10-02 · The Economist · 37:37Changed view
“I believe we can. Partly because we at some level can pull the plug.”He believes AI can be kept under human control through diplomacy and the ability to shut it down.
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2026-09-08 · The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim · 25:53
“I think that that will be the NATO rule. Um I believe quite strongly that Russia will not adhere to this and China will not adhere to this”He believes NATO will adopt rules keeping humans supervising automated weapons, but Russia and China will not adhere to them.
2026-09-08 · The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim · 33:37
“I'm actually to be very clear a very strong optimist that all the concerns that you described uh can be overcome. I don't see them as permanent.”He is optimistic that society can manage AI's downsides, though children need particular protection.
2026-08-03 · BlackNova Productions · 1:02:38
“I'm a bit more conservative. I think it's more like 20 to 30. And there are other people who say this will never happen.”He expects artificial general intelligence in roughly 20 to 30 years.
2026-08-03 · BlackNova Productions · 1:13:06
“what we say is that the tech industry should not make these decisions. That these are decisions that should include philosophers, economists, behavioral scientists.”He believes decisions about AI's future should not be left to the tech industry alone.
2026-05-25 · Steven Reff · 10:30
“You bring the judgment. You bring the conscience. You bring the perspective. You bring the moral sense to know what is worth building and what is not.”He holds that humans, and specifically these graduates, must supply the judgment and moral sense that AI lacks.
2026-05-13 · Special Competitive Studies Project · 25:55
“If you release this stuff open-source, it's dangerous enough that a a lone actor, a new kind of terrorist could emerge.”He believes open-source Chinese models are dangerous because a lone actor could add harmful capabilities without oversight.
2026-05-11 · FII Institute · 03:35
“We have to get ahead of AI and its impact on human life.”He believes we must get ahead of AI's impact on human life, including children having AI friends.
2026-03-24 · Peter H. Diamandis · 39:52
“It may take such a tragedy, hopefully a small one, to awaken the world to understand that these things are they do have negative power.”He expects it may take a modest Chernobyl-like tragedy to awaken governments to AI's dangers.
2026-03-23 · AI Upload · 15:52
“I'm much more worried about the open-source groups which can operate in the shadows.”He sees open-source AI groups operating in the shadows as a bigger proliferation risk than large companies or countries.
2026-03-20 · Simon Harrison · 17:13
“At the end, the way AI will be controlled is there will be AI that controls AI.”He expects AI systems to ultimately be governed by AI systems that control other AI.
2026-01-28 · Forbes · 28:12
“When we work with it, we will be more powerful. When it runs us, we will be very unhappy.”He warns that humans working with AI will be more powerful, but AI running humans will make them very unhappy.
2026-01-08 · The Diary Of A CEO Clips · 18:47
“There's something called recursive self-improvement where the system just keeps getting smarter and smarter and learning more and more things. At some point, if you don't know what it's learning, you should unplug it.”He recommends unplugging AI systems that recursively self-improve beyond human understanding.
2025-12-02 · Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School · 32:24
“There is a point, in my view, and we talked a lot about this, where somebody's going to have to raise their hand and say, we just went too far.”He believes a point will come where someone must call a halt to giving too much agency to computers.
2025-11-13 · AMERICA BUSINESS FORUM · 24:35
“The point at which we humans give agency to these computers for what they do is a mistake.”He thinks humans giving agency to AI systems is a mistake and red lines must be defined collectively.
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