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| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | OpenAI wrote a model spec setting out how ChatGPT handles conflicting moral cases. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | What I was going to say is the person I think you should hold accountable for those calls is me. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | No, and I don’t think they seem alive, but I understand where that comes from. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman said someone had recently told him that, historically, about 50% of jobs significantly change every 75 years on average. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But what I worry, what I lose most sleep over is the very small decisions we make about a way a model may behave slightly differently, but… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I mean, our model spec is the answer to that. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Mixed | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | AI models such as ChatGPT do not do anything unless a user asks them to. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I think there are versions of privacy preserving biometrics that I like much more than like collecting a lot of personal digital… Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I always worry the most about the unknown unknowns. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | As of September 2025, US law gives no legal privilege protecting users' conversations with AI comparable to doctor or lawyer confidentiality. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I spent a lot of time trying to read everything I could, as I’m sure you and others did, too, about what happened. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman said he suspects that, in addition to things like family members using code words in crisis situations, we will see heads of state cryptographically sign urgent messages or otherwise somehow guarantee their authenticity. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | But that should be a decision for me. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I’d like there to be a concept of AI privilege. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Sam Altman | Not checkable | 11 Sep 2025 | I have been pleasantly surprised on the ability of people to pretty quickly adapt to big changes. Sam Altman · Not checkable · 11 Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Sam Altman | Prediction | 11 Sep 2025 | People will by default not trust convincing-looking media, which will be most of the solution to AI fakes. Sam Altman · Prediction · 11 Sep 2025 | Philosophy, ethics and society |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman recently advocated in Washington, D.C. for an AI privilege concept. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | AI policy and governance |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 11 Sep 2025 | Sam Altman has not talked to the authorities about the death of the former OpenAI programmer. Sam Altman · Factual · 11 Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It's not what I set out to do with my life, but given that what I've set out to do with my life is still a bit in the air, it's good to… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And if you're a parent with kids, you might need to exert what political force you can to try to have multiple countries have that not be… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I still have a lot of the same ethical commitments that I had then as now. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Well, why the hell would I tell you that? Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I think if I believe that I would be much sure that we were going to be dead in two years than I presently feel. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | The normal person with kids might not find that very convincing, but they find it convincing and how are you gonna stop them? Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If your life choices led you to a place where you had to figure out anthropics before you could decide what to do next, are you really… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Pretty awful. But so it goes. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Maybe I sound clever over the course of this interview and then, somebody, one of the AI companies watches the interview and they were… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | So it's genuinely hard to tell at this point. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I know no law of physics requiring that we survive into all the end of the day, but it's mostly not how I'd bet. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Or, and it's not that we're sure that we know, it's just, it's not helping. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | But know the actual argument first. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I unfortunately think it's hard to say. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I mean, you wanna erase the hope out of your mind. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There were always going to be intermediates. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | A blade of grass is a solar-powered, fully self-replicating general factory. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Biosecurity |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I think that AI has been a boon to coding, but also a lot of what people code is apps designed to steal people's attention and not really… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | The truth is in there, it's just not alone. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I mean, if they're only attacking over the internet, then you've managed to notice that there is some possibility we could shut off the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And when that piece of news came in, that was a pretty sharp world model update and implied a sharp strategic turn. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It has been a while since my philosophy has been upended on a deep, technical, philosophical level. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | You can no longer sort of like infer what isn't there from hearing what they didn't say. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If AI weren't going to destroy the world, I would be so fascinated by it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Prediction | Sep 2025 | He said he thinks the fundamental problem is that current AI systems lack a 'prognosticator', and that if it were added, they would immediately go supercritical and kill everyone. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Well, I hope that either you're wrong about that or that nobody watching the show believes you. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | This was just never the physical theory of how this stuff killed you. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And so there isn't really a standard account of why super intelligence will turn out fine any more than there's a standard account of how… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | So I would love to be able to give the unabashed like, oh yeah, on net, it's been positive right now, but in fact, this is genuinely… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And that's not an ideal. It's more like a physical law. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | In his assessment, GPT-4 does not have the obvious mode of building a smarter version of itself and exploding in capability, so it is not the kind of AI meant by "if anyone builds it, everyone dies." Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Yudkowsky said he was, as far as he knew, the person who originally made the argument under discussion, and that it was his position in 1996. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Yudkowsky said he did not predict or expect that, so far, the person on the street would in a lot of ways be wiser. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It's not like my mood changed. It's just a prediction change. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | A reactor at prompt critical does not simply melt down; it explodes and vaporizes. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Other global risks |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Human engineers can build things that are held very tightly together. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Why would I even tell you my top five theories as to what the prognosticator might be? Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Mostly true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Conservation of mass provided a lot of indirect support for atomic theory. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Prediction | Sep 2025 | A superintelligence could develop weapons of unstoppable deadliness. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Yudkowsky said that AI adoption has been unprecedentedly fast, but that he would not quite go so far as to say it has yet produced unprecedented returns. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI, the economy and work |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | the people claiming that defense won with molecular nanotechnology, warfare were really straining and reaching to make the case that… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | It is not a metaphor for everything. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And the answer that has to be an international treaty. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | So if translation enables a bunch more trading, that's probably a human good. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Every incorrect view gets to be incorrect in its own way. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Ribosomes can synthesize any kind of protein, not just those found in grass. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Biosecurity |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And I feel like if your important life decisions end up hinging on the philosophy of anthropics, you've probably done something wrong. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | That does not seem beyond the reach of current technology and super intelligence indeed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | we shouldn't be able to find the conserved quantities and chemical reactions that we see nowadays. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | If something doesn't affect the bottom line, it can't affect the truth of the bottom line. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I think it would not have been hard to say if we'd had this same technology with the social technology of the 1950s or even the 1980s. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Which is sort of as if lying were called "alization." Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I cannot think offhand of anybody who predicted timing correctly. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | For one thing, if you have rapid manufacturing capability, among the things you could potentially rapidly manufacture is nuclear weapons… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There are things you get for free if you just optimize your AI very hard on capabilities. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Backing way up for a second, there's a saying, all happy families are the same, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | GPT-4 is not an AI whose building would cause everyone to die. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Prediction | Sep 2025 | While discussing wide timeline intervals, Yudkowsky said that two decades "does start to feel like it's pushing it." Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Sep 2025 | AI timelines and forecasting |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There's a sense in which truth is an accidental byproduct, and there are many pressures besides truth, especially when we get into all the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Just go build it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Prediction | Sep 2025 | A superintelligence would not need new physics to build weapons of unstoppable deadliness. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Sep 2025 | AI safety and alignment |
| Resolved true | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | No AI has yet been shown to redesign a tree and build a much smarter AI that builds a still smarter AI; that scenario has not occurred. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Unresolvable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Prediction | Sep 2025 | He said it feels like the better AI systems get at coding and science research reports, the more it looks like another breakthrough is not needed. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Prediction · Sep 2025 | AI capabilities |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | You don't even know whether they wrote down the reasons first and the line afterwards. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Yep. It sure does lead to a different approach in terms of looking over what's already been done and asking yourself, does it compile? Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I don't know off the top of my head, but you can't trust what the AI tell you. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Do what you can to try to bring the world around to where the buttons have been disassembled and nobody is allowed to press the button. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | In multiple manifestations, there's try to be more concrete. Give a particular example. Don't just stay high up on the ladder of… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | But the key to successful futurism is that some problems in futurism are easy and some problems require a bunch of background knowledge and… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | I wouldn't be helping. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Shit has always been real. Shit is now getting proximate. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | And it's also not clear that it's not right. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | You follow the process. You end up wherever and then you say, all right, now that I figured out what I'm going to argue for, here's the… Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There's trying to stay close to the world of sensory detail, like describing what you see and not merely what is true. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| Not researched | Rodney Brooks | Factual | Sep 2025 | Brooks's September 2025 blog post said the danger of a walking robot is roughly proportional to the cube of its weight. Rodney Brooks · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Most proteins in biological tissue are held together by relatively weak forces. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | There are many historical cases of people who had an early grasp of a scientific principle and correctly predicted where it would eventually lead. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Science and research methods |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | Well, that society is not going to get very far in its public debates. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 | |
| 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 |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Starting in 2000, Eliezer Yudkowsky obtained enough funding to work full-time on AI alignment. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Factual | Sep 2025 | Eliezer Yudkowsky has sometimes said that the keynote question of rationality is what do you think you know, and how do you think you know it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Factual · Sep 2025 | Field building and careers |
| Not checkable | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Not checkable | Sep 2025 | There's the object level and the meta level, and the object level is, well, if the button's going to kill you, don't press it. Eliezer Yudkowsky · Not checkable · Sep 2025 |
“I think it would not have been hard to say if we'd had this same technology with the social technology of the 1950s or even the 1980s.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky September 2025 Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Rationality and Systematic Misunderstanding of AI Alignment (LessWrong)
I think it would not have been hard to say if we'd had this same technology with the social technology of the 1950s or even the 1980s.
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