PROMISEMarch 22, 2023
MUSK SIGNED THE PAUSE. THEN HE BUILT XAI TO ACCELERATE.
“We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”
THE RECEIPT DRAWER
THEY SAID WHAT?
AI's biggest promises, predictions, and warnings — in the speakers' exact words, with sources. When a prediction resurfaces, the receipt is already here.
15 VERIFIED RECEIPTS · WORD FOR WORD
CLAIMApril 2025
AMODEI: 'WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW OUR OWN AI CREATIONS WORK'
“People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work. They are right to be concerned: this lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the hi…”
CLAIMSeptember 2023
SULEYMAN: CONTAIN IT. ANDREESSEN: DECELERATION 'IS A FORM OF MURDER.'
“Look at the world and it seems that containment is not possible. Follow the consequences and something else becomes equally stark: for everyone's sake, containment must be possible.”
PREDICTIONApril 2023
CHRISTIANO PUTS NUMBERS ON DOOM: 22%, 20%, 46%
“Probability of an AI takeover: 22%. Probability that most humans die within 10 years of building powerful AI (powerful enough to make human labor obsolete): 20%. Probability that humanity has somehow irreversibly messed…”
CLAIMSeptember 2023
NG: 'I DON'T SEE ANY PLAUSIBLE PATH' TO AI EXTINCTION
“In the case of extinction risk, I just don't get it — I don't see any plausible path for AI to lead to human extinction.”
PREDICTIONMarch 16, 2021
ALTMAN'S TIMELINE COLLAPSED FROM DECADES TO 'THOUSANDS OF DAYS'
“In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice. In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions.”
PREDICTIONNovember 13, 2017
KURZWEIL, 1999 → 2024: STILL 2029
“I've been consistent in saying 2029. In 1989, in The Age of Intelligent Machines, I bounded that between early-2020s and late-2030s; In The Age of Spiritual Machines in '99 I said 2029.”
PREDICTIONAugust 19, 2026
AMODEI VS HASSABIS, SAME STAGE: AGI IN YEARS VS END OF DECADE
“I don't think that's going to turn out to be that far off… It's easy to see how this could take a few years… it's very hard for me to see how it could take longer than that.”
PREDICTIONMarch 21, 2024
THE MAN WITH A 99.99% P(DOOM) WOULDN'T SAY THE NUMBER
“If we create general superintelligences, I don't see a good outcome long-term for humanity. So there is X-risk, existential risk, everyone's dead.”
CLAIMJuly 30, 2025
ZUCKERBERG: 'DEVELOPING SUPERINTELLIGENCE IS NOW IN SIGHT'
“Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight.”
PREDICTIONMarch 16, 2021
ALTMAN, 2021: THE MACHINES TAKE THE JOBS, CAPITAL TAKES THE MONEY
“Software that can think and learn will do more and more of the work that people now do. Even more power will shift from labor to capital. If public policy doesn't adapt accordingly, most people will end up worse off than…”
PREDICTIONSeptember 23, 2024
ALTMAN: SUPERINTELLIGENCE IN 'A FEW THOUSAND DAYS'
“It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I'm confident we'll get there.”
PREDICTIONApril 23, 2024
MUSK: OPTIMUS FOR SALE 'BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR.' 'JUST GUESSES.'
“We do think we will have Optimus in limited production in the natural factory itself, doing useful tasks before the end of this year. And then I think we may be able to sell it externally by the end of next year. These a…”
CLAIMJune 5, 2025
PICHAI: AI 'MORE PROFOUND THAN FIRE OR ELECTRICITY'
“Many years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I stil…”
CLAIMNovember 14, 2023
FEI-FEI LI: OTHER CATASTROPHIC RISKS ARE 'MORE PRESSING AND URGENT'
“I absolutely respect that. I think, intellectually, we should talk about all this. But if you ask me as an AI leader… I feel there are other risks that are what I would call catastrophic risks to society that are more pr…”
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