Conditioned on AGI,

NB: I’m interning at OpenAI this summer. This post was written before the start of my summer internship, is based on zero privileged information and is only a product of my own thoughts and reasoning. “I know exactly what I have to do”, says Will, and pulls up a photo. (see: My dad and David Bowie in Greece 1988). “I can’t move forward until I’ve done this”. Similar to him, I can’t move forward with my life and ideas, until I’ve written this out. I’m going to make an assumption here. If you disagree, I would love to argue with you on it later (reach me at tarark@mit.edu or my twitter), but for the sake of this post, let us condition on the following statement. We are capable of building AGI, (in my definition, a system that can do 95% of humanity’s intellectual labor better than or equal to at least 95% of the human population) in roughly 1-2 years. Conditioned on this, what do we do now? There are two ways I see this world progressing. Currently, I hedge my bets on ii. i) After having

NB: I’m interning at OpenAI this summer. This post was written before the start of my summer internship, is based on zero privileged information and is only a product of my own thoughts and reasoning. “I know exactly what I have to do”, says Will, and pulls up a photo. (see: My dad and David Bowie in Greece 1988). “I can’t move forward until I’ve done this”. Similar to him, I can’t move forward with my life and ideas, until I’ve written this out. I’m going to make an assumption here. If you disagree, I would love to argue with you on it later (reach me at tarark@mit.edu or my twitter), but for