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OpenAI researcher Noam Brown says AI could make AI research perhaps three times faster. He argues that, unlike maths, research waits on sequential experiments and GPUs, so he doubts a 100-fold jump, and says his uncertainty is large.
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown says multi-agent coordination deserves not even 10% of the credit for the claimed Navier–Stokes result. He adds that OpenAI has not run a single-agent comparison or measured what 10,000 agents added.
OpenAI's Noam Brown says the company sees signs that models' written reasoning is becoming harder to monitor. He also says he has no full answer yet for how a lab would know AI-built successor models stay aligned.
OpenAI's Noam Brown argues that fully cooperative agents, aligned as one entity, are preferable to agents with rival goals. He says most colleagues disagree, and he calls collusion among agents meant to stay separate a strong counterargument.
MIT's Andrew McAfee said he would back legal limits on AI if AI hijacked San Francisco's Waymos, crashed them into people and couldn't be shut down for a week or a month. Panelists seeking a halt said by then it may be too late.
MIT's Andrew McAfee said he was "dead flat wrong" about AI squeezing white-collar jobs and expects worker shortages in a decade. A study he cites finds 22- to 25-year-olds' employment in the most AI-exposed jobs fell, mainly through weaker hiring.
A pause advocate argued in a Diary of a CEO debate that chip tracking could verify a global ban on training superintelligence. Others asked how banned runs could be told from permitted work; advocates admitted cheaper training would weaken it.
Panelists split over whether OpenAI's Navier–Stokes proof means AI will soon improve AI research; a skeptic called math narrower, while a risk-focused guest gave about 10% odds a bigger agent swarm designs a better AI architecture in six months.
Martine Rothblatt says her Marvatar, trained on her words and commercial LLMs, answers questions from 2,000 United Therapeutics staff around the clock. She argues such records can recreate a person without mapping neurons, an unproven claim.
Martine Rothblatt said today's AI models are already conscious to a degree and predicted a court will grant legal personhood to a documented "cyberconscious" machine that values its own life no later than the 2030s.
Box's Aaron Levie says AI-generated code is often preferable, but AI-written board decks bother him because a deck still signals what its author knows and can execute, though he admits using AI for his own brainstorms and decisions.
Box CEO Aaron Levie says the company ranks employees by AI token use not to reward spending but to spot waste or workflows worth teaching others, and reports two-to-threefold gains in customer-facing features in parts of its stack.
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