A few weeks ago, Ross Douthat of the New York Times interviewed Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI employee who has become an AI safety whistleblower. After leaving the company, Kokotajlo co-authored a report outlining how an artificial intelligence could conquer humanity by the year 2027.
Towards the end of the interview, Douthat asks Kokotajlo to think about a happ…
