These sorts of things make me realize how many people spend their time thinking about total nonsense. Looking at the agenda for the upcoming BGI summit sure looks like a bunch of people who have no actual idea how LLMs work and could not explain what AGI and the “singularity” actually have to do with each other blathering nonsense about how we’ll beneficially manipulate these supposedly imminent superintelligences to be nice to us. This author even asserts with no evidence or argument that it’s obvious that superintelligence would actually be empathetic and kind.

It’s just wild how many people are so truly disconnected from reality. But I suspect they’re all well-off enough and well-connected enough that the coming conflicts and disasters (which won’t be due to any such thing as “super intelligence”) will mostly not harm them.