Quotesby GlyphAzeem Azhar quotes on AI, with sources
Founder, Exponential View · 11 quotes · latest Sep 19, 2026
- If American businesses keep buying and American voters hate it, this will end up settled in the political arena.
- If the Hugging Face attack needed an Astra-quality, unreleased model from OpenAI, well, within a year or two, that sort of capability will cost a tenth and might even run on any device anywhere.
- Software has a way of turning one isolated example into a hundred, then a thousand, then a million, without much else changing.
- We have to hold in our heads that most Americans appear to loathe AI, but businesses and consumers seem to like it enough that Anthropic is well on its way to $100bn in annualised revenue this year. And despite being on track to be the fastest-growing company ever, Anthropic’s leadership believes they might kill all their customers.
- Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread.
- Now advanced AI encourages us to delegate more and more, simpler and simpler tasks, weakening the practices that maintain our cognitive capacities.
- I reckoned he’d love the technology as a productivity tool; he’d be skeptical about companies working together on any issue; and he’d be concerned about giving moral agency to machines.
- Even in a world that is speeding up, it takes time to make changes inside a firm, let alone across an economy.
- I believe we’ll look back on the week of 6th September as the moment we felt the curve of AI turn upwards and strain many of our previously held assumptions.
- Our own models land closer to Anthropic’s “substantial scenario,” where AI adds about 8.3% to US GDP by 2030, so its impact is initially slightly lower than the Internet’s at its peak before picking up rapidly.
- The proof AI produced runs to more than 500 pages and will not be intelligible to any human. That is a strange milestone in our history, in philosophy, in science and in mathematics that could fundamentally change our relationship with knowledge – humans won’t be able to inspect the proof, or understand it at all.
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