Ben Todd: shorter AGI timelines mean an ever-accelerating AI news cycle into intelligence explosion
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-25
Ben Todd, founder of 80,000 Hours, argues that if we're on a shorter AGI timeline, the AI news cycle will keep intensifying all the way into the intelligence explosion. He likens it not to a sprint but to the bleep/PACER fitness test: a run that gradually gets faster and faster over the next 3+ years.
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