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He said the cost of using a given AI drops by roughly 10 times every year and that there's "no reason for exponentially increasing investment to stop in the near future" since, as he puts it, "the socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential."
"If we don't build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people," he wrote last year. He cited the need to drive down the cost of compute, as well as the massive demand for enough chips and energy to power AI. ...
"I think it's like impossible to overstate the importance of AI safety and alignment work. I would like to see much, much more happening," he said in the 2023 interview. ...
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