“people should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress”

“much more like a new Renaissance”

“take the hardest, most valuable problems”

“I would rather not make up a fake unit”

“lose control of the future”

“I'm happy to stand up in front of the company and our investors and say, ‘I’m sorry,’”

“‘We told you all along this moment might happen. We’re still going to try to figure out a way to make you a bunch of money in the future, but we’ve got to make a decision that is extremely against your financial interest right now, and for the good of humanity, we’re going to do that.’”

“lighter-touch regulatory stance”

“I wouldn't take a trade of saying, 'We'll make sure there's no major hacks, there's no misuse of this technology, there's zero scams, there's zero all the other bad things that will happen,'”

“I disagree, but I understand the perspective of people who are like, 'This technology is going to get so powerful, and it's so dangerous, that a single lab in San Francisco should have it and make sure nothing bad happens, and kind of figure out how to dole out the benefits,'”

“a completely unacceptable tradeoff”

“not been as fast as we would have liked”

“an irrelevant marketing term”

“When we talk about 'pacing,' we do not mean 'stopping.'”

“a primary topic of discussions”

“we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish”

“we made a chip and it is fast.”

“Like, you know, ‘We should trade off a lot of liberty for safety.’”

“the exact right amount of time”

“a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter”

“not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few”

“The person who sits next to you saying, like, âDo this, donât do this, that worked, you missed that thing,â or, âyouâre making these mistakes,â and âIâm just going to talk [to] you about this one,â”

“We started calling the clouds. We started calling chip fabs. We started calling energy providers and everyone's like, 'You're totally crazy. This is impossible. No industry has ever moved like this. We've been around. There's these booms and busts. It's not going to go up in a straight line. This is reckless,'”

“I am terrified of a world where the very real fears of AI are used as a way to say, 'Only this small group of people can have it because it's too dangerous,'”

“caught, contained & publicly disclosed an attack unlike anything we’ve seen before, and did it at record speed”

“a reason to favor open-source harnesses”

“very grateful for all fidji has done for openai”

“a US-led international forum”

“is not a bad idea. I just don't like the idea of the government picking the customers”

“approving access customer by customer.”