Pedro Domingos Predicts Superintelligence Will Spend 99.9% of Time on Real Work
pmddomingos · x · 2026-08-12
Prominent AI researcher Pedro Domingos shared his perspective on the future behavior of superintelligence.
He predicts that future superintelligence will spend 99.9% of its time and compute on real work, only needing to allocate 0.1% of its effort to generate "slop" (AI-generated content) to keep humans entertained.
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