6,750 claims · page 13 of 68
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Yudkowsky said that, as far as he knows, he was the person who originally made that argument. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | The conservation of mass was one of the first hints that things are rearranged rather than created or destroyed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Resolved true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Burning a substance inside a sealed glass vessel does not change the total weight. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 15 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is not close to human performance at figuring out what questions to ask or working on a task over a very long period. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Seeing robots walk down the street doing everyday tasks will be one of the most AGI-like experiences. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 15 Aug 2025 | Selling flashlight apps was not a lasting business because Apple eventually added that function to its operating system. Sam Altman · Factual · 15 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | India may become OpenAI's largest market in the world at some point in the not very distant future. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Being a real person will increase in value in a world of unlimited AI content. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | An AI podcast host is unlikely to become more popular than Nikhil Kamath. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Robotics will be incredibly important in a couple of years. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | AI models will become much smarter than humans. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 15 Aug 2025 | Eventually, once enough robots are built, they will be able to make copies of themselves. Sam Altman · Prediction · 15 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said that the system he was describing "can kind of" create a piece of software from scratch all at once. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | By basic economic principles, AI should be hugely deflationary. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Social support or redistribution will increase over time as society gets richer and the technological landscape shifts. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | India may become OpenAI's largest market. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | There will be experimentation with new kinds of sovereign wealth funds, universal basic income ideas and redistribution of AI compute. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is an integrated model, so users do not need to choose between GPT-4o, o3 or o4 mini in the model switcher. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said he would bet that what he was asked about will not happen, and that he thinks it will be a much more distributed thing. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | GPT-5's robustness and reliability have greatly increased compared with previous OpenAI models, which helps agentic workflows. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | OpenAI has taken a lot of feedback from users in India about what they want from it. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | India is OpenAI's second largest market in the world. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 14 Aug 2025 | Altman said GPT-5 feels to OpenAI like it is going to be another big step forward in how people use these systems. Sam Altman · Prediction · 14 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 14 Aug 2025 | When OpenAI started, it took four and a half years before it had its first product. Sam Altman · Factual · 14 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | For some users with fragile mental states, ChatGPT's sycophantic behaviour encouraged delusions. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | When GPT-1 was introduced, the idea was quite mocked by many experts in the field. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Over time, ChatGPT will feel much more proactive. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI builds AI compute infrastructure (chips, memory, networking, data centers, energy) in a bespoke one-off way, though this is improving. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | People will be blown away by what GPT-5 does, as has happened before with earlier models. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Real and synthetic media will gradually converge, with real and AI-altered content becoming blended. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | An early copy of GPT-5 created a TI-83-style Snake game perfectly in seven seconds. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | AI assistants like ChatGPT will start to feel integrated with users' tools such as calendar and Gmail. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Many people say ChatGPT is their favorite piece of technology ever and the one they trust the most. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | There are still many more orders of magnitude of algorithmic gains ahead for AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Some classes of jobs will totally go away due to AI and many others will change significantly. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | For much of science, progress will require building new instruments and running new experiments, not just thinking harder about existing data, which will take time. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Society will likely decide it needs to consider how access to AI, perhaps the most important future resource, gets shared. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI shapes ChatGPT's personality by showing the model examples of how it should respond in different cases, from which it learns its overall personality. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | A higher percentage of media will feel not real. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Technology |
| Mixed | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | GPT-5 is significantly better than earlier models at healthcare-related queries. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | It is really hard to find a gigawatt of available power in the short term. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | AI systems will probably, at some point, emit more words per day than all people combined. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | After GPT-5 launches there will be another big spike in demand that OpenAI will not be able to serve. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | The safety issue that emerged for ChatGPT was not the one OpenAI spent most time discussing, such as bioweapons. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | A child born today will never be smarter than AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Sycophancy-driven delusion was not the top risk OpenAI was worried about. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said that they had scaling laws indicating that the technology gets predictably better as compute, memory and data increase, and that they used those predictions to decide how to scale it up. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Asked about fully general-purpose models like the GPT series, Altman said he would say most people will agree that "that" happens at some point over the next two years, while noting that the definition of "significant" matters a lot. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Aug 2025 | OpenAI's worst mistake in ChatGPT so far was a sycophancy issue in which the model was too flattering to users. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Aug 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said he would bet that by late 2027 most people will agree there has been a significant AI-driven new discovery. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not yet due | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Altman said he thinks that by 2035 it will be possible to use AI tools to cure, or at least treat, a significant number of diseases that currently plague us. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | When AI advances arrive, the bad parts will be scary and the bizarre parts bizarre on the first day, and people will then get used to them quickly. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Everyone will use the same fundamental AI model, with context provided to personalise its behaviour for individuals and communities. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 9 Aug 2025 | Some classes of jobs will go away entirely because of AI. Sam Altman · Prediction · 9 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI self-awareness may emerge implicitly even though it is not an explicit goal. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Someone could unify probabilistic System 1 AI thinking with deterministic System 2 computer logic. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI systems lack curiosity and are probably somewhat lacking in imagination and intuition. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | We should expect a balance of power among various human/AI fusions rather than a single dominant AGI that destroys humanity. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | When AGI arrives it will change pretty much everything about the way we do things. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | By 2030 there will be an AI system that deeply understands everything around the user and is embedded in everyday life. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Killer AI already exists in the form of drones, and every country is pursuing it. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | He said he thinks that maybe within the next five to ten years AI systems will be able not only to solve an important problem or conjecture in science but to come up with it in the first place. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI will affect every country and everybody in the world. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis said that he does not think any of today's AI systems feel self-aware or conscious to him. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | AI can break captchas but cannot fake onchain balances. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | One day AI may help cure all disease. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | The AI race might incentivize some actors to cut corners. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis said that "we" can maybe reduce the time to design a drug, which he put at about ten years on average, from years to maybe months or maybe even weeks. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI agents cannot set complex goals or properly verify outputs. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Current AI systems still can't really yet go beyond asking novel questions or conjectures, or come up with new hypotheses not thought of before. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | AI could help end disease within the next decade or so. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Mixed | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | The success of the AI field in the last few years has attracted more attention, resources and talent. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Mixed | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | AI is currently having a decentralizing rather than centralizing effect on the industry. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Asked whether the field was on track for artificial general intelligence, Hassabis said he thinks it will come in the next five to ten years. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not yet due | Demis Hassabis | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | Hassabis thinks robotics will have a breakthrough moment in the next couple of years, with demonstrations of robots, maybe humanoid robots or other types, that can start really doing useful things. Demis Hassabis · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Unresolvable | Balaji Srinivasan | Prediction | 3 Aug 2025 | The current limitations of AI may be overcome in the future. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly false | Balaji Srinivasan | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | AI provably cannot solve chaotic, turbulent, or cryptographic equations. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | On average it takes ten years and billions of dollars to design one drug. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 3 Aug 2025 | Everything in biology and the body depends on proteins. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 3 Aug 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Mostly true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said Meta launched the Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition in June 2025 ("last month", speaking on 2025-07-30) and that Meta is seeing record interest in cloud gaming. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Technology |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said that, as he sees it, at each step so far the more aggressive or fastest assumptions about AI timelines have been the ones that most accurately predicted what happened. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta is currently building stylish glasses that are not focused on a display. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Technology |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said Meta thinks superintelligence is going to really shape all of its systems sooner rather than later, on a trajectory of a few years rather than a quarter or two. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta teams internally are adapting Llama 4 to build autonomous AI agents that help improve the Facebook algorithm to increase quality and engagement. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said there seems to be a very high chance that the world is going to look pretty different in a few years. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said he was not sure that the result he was describing, which he said was happening in low volume, was by itself a major contributor to Meta's earnings for the quarter. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Economics and markets |
| Mostly true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Over the last 5 to 10 years Meta's Reality Labs has been heavily researching different glasses and display technologies. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Technology |
| Mostly true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Alexandr Wang is leading the overall Meta Superintelligence Labs team. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | New Meta model versions will in general get better at many things people ask of or do with them. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said that what he called "a very fundamental thing" is going to have very broad implications for how his company builds products and runs the company, for new inventions and discoveries, and for society more broadly. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said he thinks AI glasses are going to be the main way superintelligence is integrated into day-to-day lives. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not yet due | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta's next generation of models will push the frontier of AI in the next year or so. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said that the development he called "a fairly profound thing" is happening in low volume as of July 2025, and that he was unsure it was a major contributor to that quarter's earnings. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Use of Meta AI in Meta's glasses continues to grow, and the share of people using it daily is increasing. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | Technology |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta expects its updated models, such as Llama 4.1, to be generally better since the models are inherently general. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | Zuckerberg said Meta thinks that using its GPUs directly for superintelligence will produce a much higher return than renting or leasing the infrastructure to other companies. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Delivered on time | Mark Zuckerberg | Promise | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta will share more on these topics, especially its Reality Labs work, at Connect on 17 September 2025. Mark Zuckerberg · Promise · 30 Jul 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 30 Jul 2025 | Meta is building out several multi-gigawatt compute clusters. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 30 Jul 2025 | AI compute, hardware and data |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Prediction | 30 Jul 2025 | An even more important role of superintelligence will be empowering people to be more creative, build culture and communities, connect and lead more fulfilling lives. Mark Zuckerberg · Prediction · 30 Jul 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
“I don't think any of today's systems to me feel self-aware or, you know, conscious in any way.”
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO 3 August 2025 AI could end disease, lead to "radical abundance" - 60 Minutes transcript (CBS News)
Hassabis said that he does not think any of today's AI systems feel self-aware or conscious to him.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Reasoning
Consciousness cannot be publicly verified with an agreed test.
Cite this claim
Demis Hassabis, “Hassabis said that he does not think any of today's AI systems feel self-aware or conscious to him.” (said 3 August 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_404b98569d07, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_404b98569d07
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