Eliezer Yudkowsky's decades of warnings about AGI risks may have inadvertently accelerated AI development by making AGI seem more feasible and exciting, which Sam Altman explicitly acknowledged in a tweet thanking Yudkowsky for raising awareness and accelerating AI progress.
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“Sam specifically said like hats off to the owski for like raising awareness about AGI. It's happening much faster now because of his doomsaying because it's caused a bunch of people to like pay more attention to the possibility and to like you know start investing in these companies and so forth.”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:28:11 AM
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