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The AGI Bottleneck Is Power, Not Alignment

Show me the electricity: without it you can't power AGI

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Dave Friedman
Apr 08, 2025
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I. Show Me the Electricity

The race to AGI has turned from speculative fiction into a mainstream expectation. OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and others all expect AGI to arrive relatively soon, with superintelligence arriving shortly thereafter. Forecasts like those in the recent AI 2027 scenario by Daniel Kokotajlo and team offer richly detailed narrative…

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