ClaimsEliezer Yudkowsky

“For one thing, if you have rapid manufacturing capability, among the things you could potentially rapidly manufacture is nuclear weapons, and they weren't giving an account of how that was gonna end up well.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky September 2025 Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Rationality and Systematic Misunderstanding of AI Alignment (LessWrong)

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For one thing, if you have rapid manufacturing capability, among the things you could potentially rapidly manufacture is nuclear weapons…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “For one thing, if you have rapid manufacturing capability, among the things you could potentially rapidly manufacture is nuclear weapons…” (said September 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_747cbf768efb, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_747cbf768efb

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