2050-looking Future Tech That’s Real Today

What would you do if the technology we already use every day was about to become more powerful than almost anyone is prepared for? That’s the question I kept coming back to in this conversation with Daniel Kokotajlo. Daniel was an Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety researcher at OpenAI who walked away from the company because he was deeply concerned by the speed at which superintelligence was being built and whether the people building it had a real plan to keep it under control. Back in 2021,