In an authoritative interview on the 80,000 Hours Podcast, Oxford's Toby Ord dismantles the orthodoxy of immediate recursive self-improvement and rapid intelligence explosions. He outlines why frontier AI development faces fundamental conceptual bottlenecks, explores the grave geopolitical risks of unilateral superintelligence, and argues for Cold War-style verification regimes to govern the transition to AGI.
After spending tens of billions on R&D, Anthropic sees reasons to slow its pursuit of self-improving AI