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Today, maybe it's not conscious, but, well, let me put it to you this way. If you're conscious, you started out as a child that wasn't, and although this may not fully encapsulate it, you are effectively an LLM. You go from an unconscious infant to a highly conscious adult. And the process by which you do that has a lot to do with being trained effectively on words and other things in an environment in exactly the way that we now train these AIs. The idea that we can take consciousness off the table, it won't be there till we figure out how to program it in and we're safe because we don't know how consciousness works. I take the opposite lesson. We've created the exact thing that will produce that phenomenon and then we can have philosophers debate whether it's real consciousness or it just behaves exactly as if it were. And the answer is those aren't different. And the same thing is true for agency. You know, especially if you've created an environment in which these AIs are de facto competitors. What you're effectively doing is creating an evolutionary environment in which they will evolve to fill whatever niches are there. And we didn't spell out the niches. So I have the sense we have created something that truly is going to function like a new kind of life. And it's especially troubling because it speaks our language. So that leads us to believe it's more like us than it is. And it's actually potentially quite different. By the way, he's the optimist here. He's so optimistic about LLMs and how they're going to evolve. Yes, it's amazing. It's amazing technology. Like, I think it raised global IQ, right? Like 800 million people, like 800 million people are that much more intelligent and emotionally intelligent as well.