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If I put myself in the shoes of, you know, an open-minded, engaged, normie American,
and I think, here's this guy who's telling me that AI is so great it's going to grow at 50% per year,
and here's this guy who's telling me he's going to use it to find a way to fire people.
I'm like, I believe the guy who's telling me he's going to use it to fire people.
I'm David Wallace-Wells.
I'm a writer for New York Times Opinion and a columnist for The Times Magazine.
And I'm Natasha Serin.
I'm a contributor to Times Opinion, a law professor
and an economist at Yale Law School and the founder of The Budget Lab.
We're here today to talk about something very, very big that just happened in the AI economy.
Feels like there are many big things, so you're going to have to be like slightly more specific.
I think we're talking about situational awareness, which is a hedge fund run by a guy named Leopold Aschenbrenner,
which made a huge bet on the future of AI.