Any sufficiently intelligent agent that has the ability to create subgoals will realize that it needs to survive in order to achieve the goals we gave it. So even if it is never externally given the goal of surviving, it will derive this goal.
in an interview with Quanta Magazine
“"I’m trying to convey that there is a really serious possibility of something happening. If, for example, you’re told there was a 10% possibility of a bus crashing, you wouldn’t get on the…”
“"The unique problem with AI is that if it goes wrong, if it takes over, you don’t get a second chance. We can’t say, ‘Well, we lost that time. Let’s rerun the game.’ It’s not like that."”
“"All this stuff just a few years ago was written off as complete fantasy. And it’s all happened."”
“As I said, I don't think it was bad for AI. And I think, on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works. But I do have empathy for the method.”
“People were just throwing that at the hardest problems they could. And people didn't think the model was going to do these things.”
“Our first-party model APIs are now processing nearly 32 billion tokens per minute — 40% more than last quarter and more than four times what we processed a year ago.”