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Nell Watson

Nell Watson

Sep 27, 2026

6:04
So if they're in charge of it, why don't they pause it?
6:08
It is very difficult to pause something when there are so many different race dynamics going on, right? Not only between the frontier labs, but also with open source and open weight models.
6:20
We have a lot of companies from China who are fast following with models coming out a month or two hot on the heels of the best state of the art.
6:31
And of course, there are lots of geopolitical considerations now as well.
6:36
You know, if the US government decides that a certain model is too hot to handle, as it did with Fable a few months ago, where it was blocked for international users for a couple of weeks until they created some new rules around that.
6:50
That puts tremendous pressure on the rest of the world.
6:53
And so all of these dynamics make it very difficult to coordinate.
8:46
How might those apocalyptic warnings of wiping out humanity, how might those happen in practice, in reality? Do you believe them, first of all?

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