Why Is Human-Level AI R&D Ability Considered a Key Milestone?
Jsevillamol · x · 2026-08-13
AI safety researcher Jaime Sevilla questions why human-level AI R&D capability is widely considered a privileged milestone. He probes whether triggering an intelligence explosion (fooming) might require capabilities significantly more or less than human-level R&D.
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