DeepMind's Séb Krier podcast: AI as resource not creature, RSI as industrial process
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-03
Conspicuous Cognition hosts talk with Séb Krier, formerly of Google DeepMind frontier policy and now at the DeepMind Institute. Key threads: his "Sand God" framing of AI, viewing AI as a resource to harness rather than a creature (drawing on Drexler), recursive self-improvement as an industrial process instead of "foom", what the Hugging Face incident does and doesn't show about alignment, whether the bigger danger is misaligned AI, powerful labs, or concentrated state power, problems with p(doom), AI consciousness, and why "pacing the frontier" is too vague to act on.
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