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Import AI: AI Progress Outpacing Forecasters
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Jack Clark covers Ajeya Cotra's predictions already feeling "much too conservative" and MIT/WashU paper concluding human value in an agent economy shifts to monitoring and verifying agent actions. Import AI
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