Yudkowsky: if 'slow takeoff' included today's math breakthroughs, proponents should have said so loudly
allTheYud · x · 2026-10-07
Prominent AI safety figure Eliezer Yudkowsky responds to Katja Grace in a debate over whether recent math capability events falsify takeoff-speed forecasts. He argues that if proponents meant for this possibility to be included in "slow takeoff," it was incumbent upon them to say so plainly, concretely, loudly and repeatedly. The exchange is part of the intensifying safety-community debate over whether takeoff frameworks have been falsified by recent AI math breakthroughs.
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