Ilya Sutskever quotes on AI, with sources

Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence · 9 quotes · latest Nov 25, 2025

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Nov 25, 2025	All the pre-trained models are pretty much the same because they pre-train on the same data.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	But now that compute is big, compute is now very big, in some sense we are back to the age of research.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	I think that’s been guiding me a fair bit, thinking from multiple angles and looking for almost beauty, beauty and simplicity.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	If you think about the term “AGI”, especially in the context of pre-training, you will realize that a human being is not an AGI.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	Number three, I think it would be really materially helpful if the power of the most powerful superintelligence was somehow capped because it would address a lot of these concerns.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	One consequence of the age of scaling is that scaling sucked out all the air in the room. Because scaling sucked out all the air in the room, everyone started to do the same thing.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	So for research, you definitely need some amount of compute, but it’s far from obvious that you need the absolutely largest amount of compute ever for research.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	So it’s back to the age of research again, just with big computers.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source
Nov 25, 2025	The thing which I think is the most fundamental is that these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.Nov 25, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Source

About Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence. Listed here for public statements only; no personal details. Initials instead of a photo.

Topics: Data, Research, Compute, AGI, Superintelligence, Safety

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