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So I was like, “I don’t think we’re going to get it in 2026, probably not in 2027, maybe in 2028.” So it did happen a lot faster than I expected.Noam BrownSep 17, 2026· Interview
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.Azeem AzharSep 13, 2026· Post
Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed.Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Essay
But a secondary revolution will come from using AI as a microscope: we will use it to see our own minds.Kevin KellyAug 17, 2026· Post
I’d bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we’ve learned from a century of neuroscience.Kevin KellyAug 17, 2026· Post
In the long term the instrument of AI will probably exceed the importance of the microscope, telescope and cyclotron combined.Kevin KellyAug 17, 2026· Post
Anthropic was founded by scientists who believe AI can deliver transformative progress for research itself...Jared KaplanDec 18, 2025· Statement
And actually, I would be really worried for humanity given the other challenges that we have, climate, aging, resources, all of that if I didn’t know something like AI was coming down the line.Demis HassabisJul 23, 2025· Interview
And it sort of fits with the way I think about physics in general, which is that I think information is primary, information is the most sort of fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy and matter.Demis HassabisJul 23, 2025· Interview
And we’re probably close, and again in the next five years to having AI systems that can materially help with those problems.Demis HassabisJul 23, 2025· Interview
If we can do a decade’s worth of research in a year, or a month, then the rate of progress will obviously be quite different.Sam AltmanJun 10, 2025· Post
Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.Sam AltmanJan 5, 2025· Post
Oracle trained AI models and AI Agents will improve the rate of scientific discovery, economic development and corporate growth throughout the world. The scale of the opportunity is unimaginable.Larry EllisonDec 9, 2024· Earnings
I’m actually open to the (perhaps absurd-sounding) idea that we could get 1000 years of progress in 5-10 years, but very skeptical that we can get 100 years in 1 year.Dario AmodeiOctober 2024· Essay
This might seem radical, but life expectancy increased almost 2x in the 20th century (from ~40 years to ~75), so it’s “on trend” that the “compressed 21st” would double it again to 150.Dario AmodeiOctober 2024· Essay
To summarize the above, my basic prediction is that AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress that human biologists would have achieved over the next 50-100 years into 5-10 years.Dario AmodeiOctober 2024· Essay
Computers today are the single most important instrument of knowledge, and it’s foundational to every single industry in every field of science...Jensen HuangJun 14, 2024· Keynote

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