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Reliability is the main barrier to economic value

The single most likely reason AI might fail to produce large economic value would be reliability: if you still have to look over and double-check every answer, that severely dampens the economic value of these systems, and a model that is not reliable is in effect not technologically mature.

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Speaker

Ilya Sutskever

Evidence Quote

If it somehow ends up being the case that you really want them to be reliable and they ended up not being reliable... It would be reliability.

Source

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligenceDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:26:51 AM

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