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This is the single most important opportunity challenge in our lifetimes.

I'm afraid it's bigger, more transformative than climate change.

The Trump administration, what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

You might be underselling it.

Far from being in a bubble, AI is underhyped.

These companies aren't trying to build toys.

They're trying to build something that can do everything that a human can do.

Whether it's in coding, whether it's in radiology, whether it's legal work.

We're already seeing AI models being able to outperform humans in certain domains.

And yet the basic debate is, is it going to be able to write my essay for school for me?

Most of these companies are relatively new, and the people at the top of them are unbelievably

personally wealthy.

People have made AI videos and it's pretty coherent.

It looks good.

The problem, these large language models exist only at the moment in China and the US.

AI, which is taking over the world.

My worry is that we say, let's be cautious, let's not adopt, let's try and preserve things as they are.

But our competitors internationally don't do that.

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