Some people working in AI espouse existential risk rhetoric while simultaneously accelerating AI development, which Cowan interprets as grandiosity or a need for special status ('mugging story psychology') rather than genuine belief in the risk.
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“exaggerate the risk to make themselves feel special... they're they're working in this but it's a kind of grand grandiosity... that's a nan view [27:01]”
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