Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond

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Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning, why superintelligence is an ideological goal, open source AI, how technical change leads to regime change, the economics of advanced AI, and much more.

Our conversation often references this essay by Samuel: https://www.secondbest.ca/p/ninety-five-theses-on-ai

Timestamps:

00:00 Is AI plateauing or accelerating?

06:55 How do we get AI agents?

16:12 Do agency and reasoning emerge?

23:57 Compute thresholds in regulation

28:59 Superintelligence as an ideological goal

37:09 General progress vs superintelligence

44:22 Meta and open source AI

49:09 Technological change and regime change

01:03:06 How will governments react to AI?

01:07:50 Will the US nationalize AGI corporations?

01:17:05 Economics of an intelligence explosion

01:31:38 AI cognition vs human cognition

01:48:03 AI and future religions

01:56:40 Is consciousness functional?

02:05:30 AI and children

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