"We're a year away from recursive self-improvement."
Dario Amodei has a point regarding the issue of whether a ban or any other exclusionary policy is necessary at this point given what's at stake. However, the above statement may as well not be true or true to the degree that warrants a total ban.
Milad Khademi Nori
To understand what's happening, you need to understand that some people genuinely, without any artifice, believe we are getting recursive self-improving intelligence in the next year or two. Folks view this as akin to the race for nuclear weapons in terms of international import.