Last week, the AI Safety and Evaluation Organization Meter, that's METR, released a new update on their famous AI Time Horizon chart.

Look, I'm going to load it on the screen here for people who are watching.

And when you zoom in, you can see these points on this chart, starting around 2025, begin to go up.

And then when we get the 2026, they go way up, and then the last update go way up again.

Now this graph looks scary. Even if you don't know what it means, it does create a strong sense of digital ick.

And as you can imagine, the internet jumped into action to try to amplify that uneasy

feeling. Now, in a recent essay posted to his newsletter, Gary Marcus did a good job of rounding

up some of the more, shall we say, concerned responses to this latest update

to meter's latest graph.

Let me show you a couple here.

Here's one, a tweet that said, AI power is doubling every 103 days now.

It's going to eat everything.

Nothing will be spared.

We are on the threshold of truly ergodic alien

intelligences in which human input will be nothing but a liability. All right, here's another

example that Gary pointed out. The tweet simply says, TikTok. It has a expertly drawn graph

that shows highest intelligence on earth by time and you see there's a

point where it goes up up crosses a tripwire and then shoot straight up where human brains

become smart enough to create ASI which is artificial super intelligence then below it is a version

of that time horizon graphs. And they're like,

look, doesn't that look similar? The line goes up. The line goes up. So I guess we're about

to have artificial superintelligence conquer the world. Now, there are many more tweets out

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