Cowen: GPT Pro Says Only 7 of 39 AGI Risk Papers Actually Count
tylercowen · x · 2026-09-22
Economist Tyler Cowen pushes back on Ben Todd's list of 39 peer-reviewed papers on catastrophic AGI risk: GPT Pro judged only 7 count. 'On what is supposed to be the biggest problem of all time?' He singles out a Bengio paper as very short, 'basically a bunch of words that could easily be a blog post.'
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